--- title: "Multi-track timeline and video export land in the editor" canonical: "https://blitzreels.com/changelog/a-timeline-to-build-on" --- # Multi-track timeline and video export land in the editor Milestone: 2025-07-31 Article published: 2026-09-26 Status: Product update July 2025: the editor gets a multi-track timeline. Move, trim and zoom video, audio and captions on their own tracks, then export an MP4 up to 1080p. ![Five frames of one vertical edit laid out in order from 0:02 to 0:41 with a playhead, next to the exported clip.](https://blitzreels.com/images/changelog/a-timeline-to-build-on.jpg) ## From a list of clips to a timeline The first BlitzReels editor showed your videos as a list you could reorder, with a basic strip under the player. That works for putting three recordings in a row. It stops working as soon as things overlap, like music under a talking head, or a caption that has to land on a specific word. Editing is mostly about timing. You need to see what plays when, and how moving one piece shifts the others. In July 2025 we rebuilt the editor around a real timeline. ## What the July timeline could do Each kind of media got its own track, so video, audio and captions no longer competed for the same row. On the timeline you could: - Drag an item to move it in time. - Drag its edges to trim the start or the end. - Zoom in to work on a passage up close, or zoom out to see the whole video. - Spot a moment from the thumbnails on video clips and the waveforms on audio, without playing anything. - Draw a box to select several items at once. Keyboard shortcuts covered the basics: Space to play or pause, the arrow keys to nudge the playhead, the + and - keys to zoom, Delete to remove what’s selected. Next to the timeline, the media library kept your videos, audio and captions in tabs. A properties panel showed the settings of whatever you selected, like a clip’s volume and timing. ## What separate tracks change in practice Say you’re cutting a one-minute clip from a podcast. The video sits on one track, a music bed on another, and the captions on a third. You can trim the start of the video so it lands on the first strong sentence without touching the music, then slide the music so it starts under the opening line. Before, every change to the order of clips meant playing the video back to check that everything still lined up. With tracks, you can see it. If a caption runs past the end of its sentence, it’s right there on screen, and you drag its edge back. ## Exports you can download The other half of July was export. On July 26, a few days before the timeline, the editor could render a project in the cloud and hand back a finished MP4. You picked the quality first: SD (480p) for a quick check, HD (720p), or Full HD (1080p). Finished files showed up in the Exports tab, ready to download. The render ran on our servers, so your computer didn’t have to do that work. ## How to edit on the timeline today The timeline has grown a lot since July 2025, but the basics haven’t changed. Here’s a quick pass on a talking-head video: 1. Open a project in the [online video editor](https://blitzreels.com/editor) and drag your recording from Media onto the timeline. 2. Play it with Space and stop where you want a cut. 3. Press Cmd+B (Ctrl+B on Windows) to split the clip at the playhead, then select the part you don’t want and press Delete. 4. Drag music from Media onto its own track and lower its volume in the clip’s settings. 5. Click Export in the editor header. The finished file shows up in Exports, ready to download. ## Limits then, and what changed since In July 2025, exports topped out at 1080p and captions still had one plain look. [Word-by-word captions](https://blitzreels.com/changelog/captions-find-their-rhythm) arrived a few days later, on August 2. Today, paid plans export up to [4K with no watermark](https://blitzreels.com/features/4k-export). Automatic edits use this same timeline too. When [silence removal](https://blitzreels.com/features/silence-detection) cuts the gaps out of a recording, what remains lands on the timeline as normal clips you can move and trim like any other. The [timeline feature page](https://blitzreels.com/features/pro-timeline) shows it in action. ## Questions ### Can I edit videos on a timeline in my browser? Yes. The BlitzReels editor has a multi-track timeline in the browser, with separate tracks for video, audio and captions. You can move, trim and split items without installing software. ### What export resolutions does BlitzReels support? When export arrived in July 2025, you could choose 480p, 720p or 1080p. Today, paid plans export up to 4K with no watermark. ### How do I split a clip on the BlitzReels timeline? Move the playhead to the cut point and press Cmd+B on Mac or Ctrl+B on Windows. The clips under the playhead split in two, or only the selected clip if you selected one. ### Can I put music under my video? Yes. Audio has its own track, so you can place music under a video and set its volume in the audio clip’s settings. ## Try the timeline on your next edit See what the multi-track timeline can do, from simple trims to automatic edits you can keep refining. [Explore the timeline](https://blitzreels.com/features/pro-timeline) We wrote this story later, looking back at our product history. The date at the top marks the work described here; features and access may have changed since then.