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Rewind Cinemagraph with Photoshop CC 2018

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January 18, 2018
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I did some cinemagraphs in PS and it works very simple and well. The only thing I´m missing is how can I rewind (or play it reverse) a video clip in my timeline?

I was searching the web and found tons of tutorials about making cinemagraphs with PS but none shows how to let them play reverse.

I want to achieve an effect like I did in this cniemagraph (created with another software): Instagram

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Michael

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frank0D4517621272

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This is the easiest I've seen so far -

Select the clip you want to mirror

Go to the top of photoshop and click Edit

Scroll down and Click Transform

Click on either Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical

A box will pop up that asks if you want to convert it to smart object layer

Click Convert (may take a little time if you have a lot of graphics to flip)

Go back and play with the Timeline slider back and forth and watch the mirror magic happen!

Basically you are treating is as a layer and mirroring it like it was a single layer but it works with the whole clip ! : )

PS - This is Frank's mom, Joanne. I forgot I was logged into my son's adobe account until after it posted my reply.

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frank0D4517621272

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NOTE: I forgot to add that once you convert the layer to the smart object layer it won't be as easy to edit.

Amoakk

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Hi,

There is another method for doing this. I recently released a photoshop panel I created that allows you to reverse video in photoshop just using one click. You can find it at this site: https://kofiamoa.photo/kp

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Katie Houghton

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Yes. It does not convert the animation correctly. Honestly on the video timeline there is no easy way to reverse. If you have the chance to use Animate or After Effects, it may provide more robust options. But let's do this is Photoshop. You have already created the animation on the video timeline.

Video Timeline

If you have the keyframes you can move them around.
If you created added a motion then you can reverse it in it's options.

This may be the easiest thing to do. And just keep it in the Video Timeline.

If you feel you want to use the frame animation timeline then this may be a good process:

Frame Animation Timeline

Timeline menu>Convert Frames> Flatten Frames into clips
Delete the layers of your original animation (not named Frame...)
Switch to the frame animation by clicking on the icon
You will get a warning
Select all the layers (named Frame...) and Timeline menu> Make Frames from Layers
Now you can select the frames then Timeline menu> Reverse Frames
You could copy the existing frames (same menu) then paste them at the end and reselect the new ones and reverse them so it goes forward then backwards. I am not sure what exactly you are trying to do but you may be better moving into a real animation application.

Let me know if this answers your question.

michaeloeserAuthor

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Thanks Katie.

Now I got it and it works but it´s indeed way too complicated in my view. Such a simple task in a software like FinalCut but so complicated in PS. I know PS is not a video editing app but as it already has quite basic but nice video editing functions I would have expected it to have this simple function as well. To me playing a clip backwards is on the same level like playing it at 50% which PS can do very easy.

Any way no big deal because I don´t need the reverse function very often and if I need it I can do it in FinalCut before I switch to PS for the retouch or color grading stuff where PS is king.

You wanted to know what I try to achieve? Pretty simple. Take a look at my very first cinemagraph I created a few days ago by using FlickGraph which is incredibly simple to use but of course lacks all the great editing features of PS.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeC19fDhgv8

Cheers

Michael

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Katie Houghton

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I love it!

You say Final Cut and probably mean Final Cut 7 which means you can use Premiere. Since CS 6 Premiere has used most of Final Cut 7 keyboard shortcuts. What is great with Premiere is that it picked up some amazing Final Cut 7 workflows but still kept its After Effects capabilities.

Try Premiere. I had mentioned Animate and After Effects as they are the true animation tools but Premiere is After Effects with a little less power. Try it... if you know Final Cut 7 then you know Premiere. (Premiere & Final Cut are considered video editors)

After Effects, Premiere, Animate, and Final Cut all make it easy to keyframe and reverse keyframes. The best tool for the job is always the one you can get the job in comfortably.