| Playing a clip backwards can be good for more than just comic value or special effects. This feature comes in handy more often than I ever thought: a clip played in reverse can sometimes blend better into the next scene (for example, zooming out of a landscape). Then again, I find it hard to resist tweaking reality by making a spilled glass of milk clean itself, or coaxing waterfalls to rush upwards. To reverse clip direction: 1. | Select a clip. | 2. | Select the Fast/Slow/Reverse effect. | 3. | Enable the Reverse Direction checkbox (Figure 13.11). Figure 13.11. Use the Fast/Slow/Reverse effect to make a clip play backward. | 4. | Click the Apply button. |
Tips | | Reversed clips feature backwards audio as well as visuals. You'll probably want to make the clip silent and play some other audio track in its place. When you apply the Fast/Slow/Reverse effect to a clip that you've edited using Direct Trimming, you lose any hidden footage as long as the effect is activeit becomes its own self-contained clip. However, if you remove the effect, you can still access your hidden footage to the original clip.
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