--- title: "Where BlitzReels began: a browser editor with auto captions" canonical: "https://blitzreels.com/changelog/where-blitzreels-began" --- # Where BlitzReels began: a browser editor with auto captions Milestone: 2025-06-04 Article published: 2026-09-26 Status: Early development June 2025, the first BlitzReels build: upload videos into a project, put them in order, get captions from an automatic transcript and fix them by hand. ![The BlitzReels logo above “June 2025”, next to a vertical clip with captions on the picture.](https://blitzreels.com/images/changelog/where-blitzreels-began.jpg) ## What the first version could do BlitzReels started on June 4, 2025, as a video editor that ran in the browser. The first version was small. You created a project, uploaded one or more videos and dragged them into the order you wanted. Each video could be transcribed automatically. The transcript came back as captions already placed at the right moment of the sequence, so the second video’s captions started where the second video did. From there you could fix the captions by hand. You could correct a word the transcription misheard, change when a line starts or ends, or delete lines you didn’t need. A player previewed the whole thing, with a simple timeline underneath showing where each video and each caption sat. ## Why we started with the words A tutorial or an interview depends on what gets said. When the captions live in one tool and the picture in another, you keep checking one against the other and fixing the same line in two places. Say you film a ten-minute tutorial and the transcript turns a product name into something else. With captions in a separate tool, you’d find the line by its timestamp, fix it there, bring the file back and check the video again. With the recording and its transcript in one project, you hear the mistake, open that caption and type the right word. The editor still works that way. Captions sit on the timeline as items of their own, next to the video they came from. ## What wasn’t there yet This was early development, before any public launch. Trimming was still being built and you couldn’t export a finished video yet. Captions had one fixed look, white text on a dark box, with no styles to choose from. Nothing suggested clips from a long recording yet, and there was no automatic framing for vertical video, so a landscape recording stayed landscape. Those gaps became the to-do list for the following months. Each of these later stories covers one piece: - July 2025: [a multi-track timeline and video exports](https://blitzreels.com/changelog/a-timeline-to-build-on). - August 2025: [word-by-word captions](https://blitzreels.com/changelog/captions-find-their-rhythm), with the spoken word highlighted. - October 2025: [AI suggestions for short clips inside long videos](https://blitzreels.com/changelog/long-videos-short-stories). - August 2026: [one editor in place of Simple and Pro modes](https://blitzreels.com/changelog/one-editor-all-your-controls). ## Try the same workflow today The steps from June 2025 still work, with more tools along the way: 1. Create a project and upload a video, or import one from a link. 2. Let BlitzReels transcribe it. Captions appear on the timeline with timing for every word. 3. Play it back and fix any word the transcription got wrong. 4. Pick a caption look, adjust the framing if you need a vertical version, then export. ## What it turned into The pieces from that first build are still the core of BlitzReels. You upload a video, BlitzReels transcribes it with timing for each word, and the captions land on the timeline ready to edit. The [AI caption generator](https://blitzreels.com/ai-caption-generator) page shows how that works today. The strip under the player became a multi-track timeline, where video, audio, captions and text each get a track. Around it, the [online video editor](https://blitzreels.com/editor) gained caption styles, framing, text overlays and exports up to 4K on paid plans. AI clipping runs through the same editor. When BlitzReels suggests a short from a long recording, you open it on that timeline and change whatever you want, the same way you would edit a video you uploaded yourself. ## Questions ### When did BlitzReels start? Development started on June 4, 2025, with a video editor that ran in the browser. That first version was an early build, before any public launch. ### What could the first BlitzReels editor do? You could create a project, upload videos, put them in order and transcribe them into captions automatically. You could then correct the caption text and timing while previewing the result. ### Does BlitzReels still create captions automatically? Yes. BlitzReels transcribes your video and creates captions with timing for every word, which you can edit in the editor. ### Do I need to install software to edit with BlitzReels? No. The BlitzReels editor runs in your web browser. ## See what BlitzReels does today Read how the editor, captions and AI clipping fit together now. [What is BlitzReels?](https://blitzreels.com/about/what-is-blitzreels) 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.