Backword Encoding possible?

[Xanthas]

Please don't ask me why, 'cause it would take all day to type in an explanation. But here is my question: What would be the easiest way to encode a movie to play backwards? Well, not actually the whole movie, just a snippet of it.

I have tried using TMPGEnc, setting the START source range at the END and the END range at the start, but that did not work. I only ended up with a 10k empty MPG.
Same thing happened using the MPEG Tools to cut it out of an existing MPG. Only it started encoding a part of the movie before the actual END range i had set.

Any help or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Xanthas

[holistic]

YES

In Premiere there are 'filters' perhaps in other consumer NLE also.

For the $$$ challenged there is VDub .Virtual Dub itself won't but i gather it will with 'avisynth'.

http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/faq.html


follow link - bottom of page - dl avisynth


look here also
http://www.videotools.net/doc/doc.htm

[Xanthas]

I appreciate the info holistic, but from what I read (i actually did a quick skim) this is not quite what I was looking for.
I want to take an actual MPG and save it reversed not just play it in reverse. Make Sense?
I can do it with TMPGEnc by saving the clip as sequenced bitmaps and then renaming them in reverse order and re-encoding them. But that would be too tedious of a task. Unless that is the only way, or should i say the easiest way, to do it.

Thanks,

Xanthas

[holistic]

I understood. 123456789 to 987654321

If you go to the second link - then scroll down to "Reverse" you will find it is the avisynth 'command' you are looking for.

Cannot help you further as i have not use avisynth in this way.

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[EricB]

Xanthas,

In Premiere, you can set the speed of a clip in %. If you set a clip to negative 100% (-100%) it will play normal speed backwards. Export the file and you are done.

[Helmut]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/92223.php#reverse

[Xanthas]

I appreciate all the help. I'll give the avisynth a try and se how it works. That is until I can get ahold of Premier. It's sounds much easier to do. And that is what I'm looking for.

Thanks again,

Xanthas