Rendering Backwards

Question

Is there a way in blender cycles render engine to render a scene backwards instead of forward?

Yeah, but some keyframes can't be put in a backwards sequence for example if you are rendering an explosion backwards, so how would you render something backwards instead of foward? — , Sep 27 '15 at 13:26
Is this a workflow question? As in, you decided the end of your animation is a higher priority for rendering than the beginning? Or do you just want it to play in reverse? Because depending on which it is, the solution will be very different. — Mentalist, Sep 27 '15 at 14:16
I just want to render the animation in cycles as an avi_raw video in reverse using blender — , Sep 27 '15 at 15:57
@AustinH. It's recommended to render everything to an image sequence before rendering to a video format. After the animation is rendered it's not hard to reverse the frames by enabling Backwards in the VSE — gandalf3, Sep 27 '15 at 19:04

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '15 at 19:35

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Once you've rendered the animation to an image sequence, import that into the VSE (in a separate .blend if you prefer). To add the image sequence, press ⇧ ShiftA> Image and select the images in the sequence.
Ensure the scene render dimensions, end frame, frame rate, etc. match your image sequence.
Set the output settings to render to the video format of your choice.
Enable Backwards if you want to render the frames in reverse order:
Render (F12)

answered Sep 28 '15 at 19:35

gandalf3

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 29 '22 at 04:04

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In the Sequencer, next to the timeline, on the right lower side of the window, select tab Strip.

It's now called Reverse Frames:

edited May 29 '22 at 04:04

answered May 28 '22 at 14:11

synogate_phil

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