# Backwards playback possible?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/backwards-playback-possible/280085>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 22, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/backwards-playback-possible/280085 "2009-01-22T14:23:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![celicasaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@celicasaur](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/celicasaur)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/backwards-playback-possible/280085/1 "2009-01-22T14:23:29Z")

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I have a cool idea for an animation, but need it to play backwards at the end of it’s timeline…how hard would this be to do?

So, in essense it would play frames 1,2,3,4,5 then immediately 4,3,2,1 and then 2,3,4 and so on…

Can somebody advise? 🙂