Reverse Video
Reverse Video plays a clip backwards — a fun effect for boomerang-style loops, rewind gags, or creative transitions. Both the picture and the audio are reversed together. Reversing buffers the whole clip in memory, so it works best on short videos, and it all happens on your device.
Add your video
The file is read by your browser and stays on your device — there is no upload step.
Your video
The work runs in this tab. Nothing is sent anywhere, and the download is generated locally.
How to use Reverse Video
- 01Upload
Add your clip
Drop a short video in; the preview shows it playing forwards.
- 02Customize
Choose a format
Pick your output format. The reverse is applied to the whole clip on export.
- 03Process
Export
Export to render the backwards version and download it.
What reversing does
Plays every frame back to front, so the last frame becomes the first. Pouring, falling and breaking are the shots that reward it, because they read as impossible in reverse.
What does not change
Resolution, frame rate and duration. What does change and often surprises people is the audio: reversed speech is unintelligible, so most reversed clips are better muted or given new sound.
Supported formats
- MP4
- MOV
- WebM
- AVI
- MKV
- Maximum file size —
- bounded by your device's memory
- Processed by —
- FFmpeg (WebAssembly), on your device
Your file, and what the page does
Your file is never uploaded. Reverse Video reads it into this browser tab and processes it with FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly on your own device. There is no upload endpoint in the application and no copy on any server — closing the tab discards it.
That is also why processing takes longer here than on a site that uploads: your device is doing the work rather than a rack of servers. The trade is that the file never leaves it.
What the page does send or fetch
- The processing engine, once
- The first time you use any video or audio tool, the browser downloads the FFmpeg WebAssembly build (~30MB) from the jsDelivr CDN and reuses the cached copy afterwards. That is a file coming to you — no part of your own file is in the request.
- Ads on the page
- The site is funded by advertising, so the page loads Google AdSense. That carries the usual web basics — IP address, browser, referring page — as on any ad-supported site.
- An anonymous usage counter
- When Reverse Video finishes we record that the tool ran, whether it succeeded and how long it took. No file data, no identifier, no cookie.
Your file is not on that list. How this works.
Frequently asked questions
Yes — if the clip has sound, the audio is reversed in sync with the video so it plays backwards as well.
The reverse filter has to buffer the entire clip in memory, so very long videos can be slow or hit memory limits.
Trim or cut the clip to the section you want first, then reverse that section.
Yes — Reverse Video is completely free. There's no account, sign-up, watermark or limit.
No. It runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Brave — with nothing to download or install.
Looking for something else?
- The audio should not be reversedMute Video
- You want it slower, not backwardsSpeed Video
- It should repeat insteadLoop Video
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