The Better Reverse Clip

I have reversed a clip in the TL and i have lost quite a lot of quality. Is there a better reverse method?

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Reverse as in playing the clip in reverse (ie...a shot of people eating where food is coming out of their mouths onto the fork) or reverse as in a flopped image (ie...a shot of a subject on the right side becomes a shot of the subject on the left side)?

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I bet he's talking about reverse action, not a Flopped scene.

The lousy quality comes from reversed fields. Try the Deinterlace filter on that clip if Speed's Frame Blending setting doesn't help.

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I believe Nattress has a free filter called G reverse which reverses the fields so the footage looks good.

Here is the link:

[www.nattress.com]

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thanx the nattress plug does fine. G reverse is better than fcps reverse.

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There is also Motion, which has optical flow. Try it.

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i will i am just now discovering motion does things i never considered it for.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

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at normal speed G Reverse is just ... perfect

no need for anything else

caveat: if you "un-render" a portion of a clip (like putting something above on an other track) you'll have to re-render the whole clip. As you will soon find out by yourself.

they are (many) other ways to inverse fields but G Reverse is perfect, simple tu use and free.

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