A boomerang plays a short clip forwards and then backwards, so the movement bounces back to where it started: a toast that clinks and unclinks, a jump that lands and lifts off again, hair that flips and settles. Because it ends on its first frame, it loops without a jump.
How to make a boomerang video
- Upload a short clip (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, MPEG, TS and more), up to 60 seconds long.
- Effect: Boomerang is already chosen.
- Start, and download the boomerang.
What you get
- Forwards, then backwards: the result is twice as long as the clip. The frame where it turns is shown once, so the bounce doesn't stutter.
- No sound: sound played backwards rarely fits, so a boomerang is silent.
- Full size and frame rate: nothing is shrunk or dropped. Upright phone videos stay upright.
- Format: MP4, MOV, MKV and WebM stay in their format; other formats become MP4. The video is re-encoded at high quality.
Tips for a good boomerang
- Keep it short. The best boomerangs start from one to three seconds of a single movement. Cut that moment out of a longer video first with the video trimmer: clips longer than 60 seconds are refused.
- Keep the camera still. The movement of the subject then reads clearly both ways.
- Speed it up. Boomerangs usually play fast. Upload the result again and choose Change the speed at 1.5× or 2×.
- Repeat it. Websites and players can loop a video by themselves; for a file that plays the bounce several times, upload the result again and choose Loop.
- As an animation: to share the boomerang as a GIF or animated WebP, make it here first, then use Video to GIF.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Video Effects.