--- title: "Video editor redesign: Simple and Pro modes become one" canonical: "https://blitzreels.com/changelog/one-editor-all-your-controls" --- # Video editor redesign: Simple and Pro modes become one Milestone: 2026-08-04 Article published: 2026-09-26 Status: Product update August 2026 redesign: Simple mode is gone. One editor keeps every timeline tool, opens settings next to the canvas and docks quick actions under the preview. ![A vertical gameplay clip with callouts pointing to the facecam, the captions and the framing.](https://blitzreels.com/images/changelog/one-editor-all-your-controls.jpg) ## Before: two editors in one Until August 2026, the BlitzReels editor had two modes. It opened in Simple mode, built to review and ship a clip: preview, caption styles, framing, effects and export. Pro mode added the full timeline toolset, with the blade, layers and detailed detection settings. That split made tools hard to find. A setting you knew from one mode sat somewhere else in the other, and some tools only appeared after you switched. In Pro mode, the settings of the selected item opened in a panel on the right, while other controls floated over the video. ## What changed on August 4 We removed Simple mode and the switch between modes. Everyone now works in one [online video editor](https://blitzreels.com/editor), with every timeline tool available, including the blade, moving items between layers and replacing a clip’s media. Here’s how finding controls changed: - Selecting something on the canvas or the timeline opens its settings in the left panel, in place of the library tab you were on. A back arrow takes you back to the library. - The right-hand properties panel is gone. - The floating controls over the video gave way to one toolbar docked at the bottom of the preview. It shows the quick actions for whatever you selected. What Simple mode did well moved over. Its caption controls and framing choices now sit in the settings of a caption or a video clip, and its one-click passes sit with the clip they apply to. ## What you see when you select something Here’s what the editor shows today, depending on what you click: - A caption: the toolbar under the preview offers its position (Top, Center or Bottom), font size and color. The left panel opens the caption settings, where you choose whether a change applies to all captions, this phrase or this word. - A single word: the toolbar switches to that word’s weight, color and motion. - A video clip: the toolbar offers Crop and Lock. The left panel shows the framing for a landscape clip, the volume, position and size, an animation, and AI tools for this project: B-roll, Color & zoom, Cut silences and Studio sound. Crop opens right on the preview. Drag the bright area to choose what viewers will see, then click Done. Lock keeps the footage from moving while you click around the preview. ## A quick edit in one place Take a landscape podcast recording you want as a vertical short. Select the video clip, open its framing and pick Active speaker. In the same panel, run Cut silences to take out the pauses (the [silence removal](https://blitzreels.com/features/silence-detection) page explains how it works). If a stretch needs visuals, the B-roll row generates them and places them at the right moments, like the [automatic B-roll](https://blitzreels.com/ai/automatic-brolls) page shows. Then click the captions, keep All captions, and pick one of the [caption styles](https://blitzreels.com/features/caption-styles) and an active word color. You never leave the editor or switch modes. When it looks right, click Export in the editor header. ## Limits and access The redesign targets desktop browsers. On smaller screens, the settings for a selected item open in a sheet that slides up from the bottom. Some AI tools use credits. The B-roll row shows its cost before you run it, and your plan sets how many credits you get each month. Cut silences can’t be undone from the editor, so run it once you’re happy with the rest of the cut. Simple mode’s tools moved into the one editor. Its separate export section was replaced by the Export button in the editor header, and finished files land in the Exports tab, as they did in Pro mode. ## Questions ### What happened to Simple mode in the BlitzReels editor? Simple mode was removed on August 4, 2026. Its caption controls, framing choices and one-click tools moved into the single editor that everyone now uses. ### Where are the settings for a selected clip or caption? Select the item on the canvas or the timeline and its settings open in the left panel of the editor. Quick actions also appear in a toolbar docked under the preview. ### Is there still a Pro mode? No. There is one editor, and the timeline tools that used to need Pro mode, like the blade and layers, are available to everyone in it. ### Do the AI tools in the editor cost credits? Some do. The B-roll tool shows its credit cost in its row before you run it, and your plan sets how many credits you get each month. ## Edit your next clip in one place See the online editor, with the timeline, framing, captions and AI tools in a single workspace. [Explore the video editor](https://blitzreels.com/editor) 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.