Editing - Reverse

When looking at some of the smoking shot i have shot, I thought that it'd look good in reverse.  Using Youtube, I taught myself how to do this.  The outcome of the shot I have below, isn't the one I used in my video, however it gives a rough idea of how i approached it.


Firstly, I inserted the shot that I wanted to use into premiere pro.  I watched it through and planned where I wanted to make it reverse, and loop back to forwards.  This was something I thought through thoroughly as getting the wrong part of the clip would mean that the reverse wouldn't make any difference.  The smoke needs to be seen leaving and reentering the mouth.



The next thing I did was remove the sound from the clip, so that if this where to be in my music video, it wouldn't play over the music. This involved right clicking and choosing the 'unlink' setting.  This detaches the sound from the clip and then I deleted the sound.  It was important that I was only reversing the clip and not the sound.









I then cut off the parts of the clip which I didn't want to use.  This meant that the clip would be shorter, which is what i as the style of my music video is full of short clips.

After removing the pieces of the clip I didn't want, i looked through the clip and found where I wanted the reverse.  Then I cropped the section.







After I wanted to create a section where I wanted the reverse, I copied and pasted the section three times so that they played one after another.  This provided the ability to make the reverse stutter.

Then with the three new sections, I segregated the middle one.  With the middle, I right clicked and went into speed and duration, then reversed the clip.

This was the clip once i had finished with it.  It isn't as smooth, long or well carried out as the version I used in my actual video, however it shows a rough idea.