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reverse-any-video

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Rebuild any video file as an editable HyperFrames project - motion graphics, talking heads, live action or AI-generated footage. Measure and watch it, rebuild every layer, then check the render against the original frame by frame. Use to reverse, recreate, replicate or copy a video.

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**Plugin installs:** Before setup or freshness commands, follow [plugin execution rules](../hyperframes/references/plugin-installation.md) when this skill is inside a HyperFrames plugin.

# Reverse a video

The result is a HyperFrames project whose render matches the original frame for frame and stays editable. Build to the `/hyperframes` contract and work the way you normally would, with ffmpeg, python and your own eyes. Reverse videos the person has the right to use.

Reverse is a HyperFrames Pro feature: go on only on a paid plan. Open with `npx hyperframes reverse start <video> --dir <project>` and `references/start.md`; if it refuses, run its `fix` (`billing subscribe` waits for the upgrade), then start again. Given a link, run `npx hyperframes auth status` before downloading it. Resuming (a `REVERSE.md` or half-built project) opens the same. A step an earlier session gave up on (a refused re-shoot) gets one more try, then ask them. If it ran under a credit limit, ask whether that still holds, naming no costs. Rebuild the video as it is; remix it only when the person asks.

## The original decides the frame

1. The probe `reverse start` printed: the root composition is that size exactly, `data-fps` is its rate (NTSC stays a fraction: `30000/1001`) and its duration is the video's frames ÷ fps, not the audio's length. `init`'s default canvas is wrong for most videos.
2. `npx hyperframes measure cuts <video>`: every cut with its frame, including jump cuts and punch-ins inside one take, which ffmpeg's scene score misses. Every shot starts at its listed time. Write times as frame ÷ fps rounded down (frame 83 at 30 fps is `2.766666`): `2.767` lands a frame late.
3. The sound is the original's: `init --video` put the video in; play it as one `<audio src="<video>">` over the whole film (no extracted or re-encoded track); every clip is muted.
4. Read consecutive frames wherever something changes: each cut, entrance, exit and transition, a few frames either side (`npx hyperframes measure frames --range a,b --roi x,y,w,h`). Sheets a second or a quarter apart miss 1–3-frame timing, which way things enter and leave, blurs and dissolves at cuts, and one-frame flashes.