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Read guide →Reverse Video
Play a clip backwards, audio included, using FFmpeg reverse filters that run entirely inside your browser tab.
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MP4, WebM, MOV, AVI — processed locally and never uploaded.
Reviewed 2026-08-15
Free Reverse Video – how it works
Reversing applies the reverse filter to the video and areverse to the audio when a sound track is present. Both work the same way: the stream is buffered in full, then written out back to front.
That buffering is the important constraint. Unlike trimming or muting, reversal cannot stream through the file, because the last frame has to be available before the first one can be written. Every decoded frame sits in memory at once, so this is the most memory-hungry operation in the video toolset.
Keep clips short. A few seconds is comfortable. Ten or more seconds of high resolution footage will often exhaust the tab before it finishes.
How to use Reverse Video online
- Trim first, then add the clip. If your source is long, cut it down with Trim Video before reversing. Feeding a short segment in is the difference between this working and failing.
- Run the reversal. There are no settings. Video is reversed, and audio too if the file has any.
- Download the result. Save the reversed clip and play it through to confirm the whole thing rendered rather than stopping early.
When to use it
- Make a loop that plays forward then back for a social post.
- Reverse a pouring or falling shot for a visual gag.
- Study a fast motion by watching it unwind from the end.
- Create a rewind effect to bookend a short clip.
Known limitations
- Every frame is held in memory simultaneously, so this fails on clips that other tools here handle comfortably. Trim before reversing.
- The output is re-encoded, which costs a small amount of quality relative to the source.
- Reversed audio is rarely useful on its own. Consider running Mute Video first if you only want the picture reversed.
Frequently asked questions
Why does reversing fail when other tools work on the same file?
Reversal has to buffer the entire decoded stream before it can write anything, because the output starts with the input's last frame. Trimming and muting stream through the file and need very little memory by comparison.
Is the audio reversed too?
Yes, when the source has an audio track. If you want silent reversed video, run Mute Video on the clip first and then reverse it.
Is my video uploaded to a server?
No. FFmpeg is compiled to WebAssembly and runs inside the page, so the file is read from your disk into the tab's own memory. Nothing about the video is sent to opentools.
How long a clip can I reverse?
Aim for a few seconds. There is no fixed cap, but memory use scales with resolution and duration together, so a short 1080p clip is fine while a longer 4K one will not complete.
Why does the first render take longer?
The FFmpeg WebAssembly build is about 31 MB and has to download before the first job can start. The browser caches it afterwards, so later visits skip that step and begin encoding almost immediately.
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