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How do you reverse a clip? It's a question posted often... not supported directly by Movie Maker 2, which makes it more fun to use in a video.

 

But the subject goes deeper than that. You don't just want a clip playing in reverse. You want to use the clip in a movie, and do it in such a way that the transitions to and from the clip are smooth.

 

it's that overall flow I'll cover in this newsletter, not just the clip reversal. How to stop a clip that's playing, put it into reverse, stop again and go forward... all with smooth transitions between them. And I'll even take a little side trip into and out of a Photo Story at one point in the movie, and add that to the movie project...

 

Here's the finished movie, an almost full-field touchdown run by my grandson Nick. It's a 4.8 MB file that plays for 1 min, 10 seconds. It uses freeze-frames, includes a short PhotoStory, and a reverse clip... they're all annotated.

 

 

... before going into it, a couple notes...