Editing · Tutorial · July 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Cleaning up a timeline clip by clip is slow. In the EZ Web Streams editor you can drag a box across the timeline to grab a whole run of clips at once, then move them together or delete them all in a single step. Here's how the marquee (rubber-band) selection works, and why it saves you real time.
What you need
A recording open in the timeline editor with a few clips on it — say you split a long take into pieces, or dropped in several overlays. You don't need to install anything; the whole editor runs in your browser tab. If you don't have a recording yet, record one first and it lands straight in the editor.
Step 1 — Find an empty patch of the timeline
Marquee selection starts on empty space, not on a clip. Clicking a clip and dragging would move that one clip. Instead, put your cursor on an empty area of the timeline — the track background, above or between clips — where there's nothing to grab.
Step 2 — Drag a box across the clips
Press the mouse down on that empty space and drag. A dotted selection rectangle follows your cursor. Every clip the box touches lights up as highlighted. Sweep the box over three clips, or ten — it doesn't matter how many. You can drag left-to-right or right-to-left; the rectangle covers whatever it overlaps.
Step 3 — Release to lock in the selection
Let go of the mouse. The dotted box disappears and the clips it covered stay selected as a group. Now you can act on all of them together in one move instead of repeating yourself for each clip.
Step 4 — Move the whole group together
Grab any clip in the selection and drag. The entire group slides with it, keeping the spacing between clips intact. This is how you shift a whole section of your edit later or earlier without pulling it apart and rebuilding it.
Moving something far away? Drag toward the edge of the timeline and it auto-scrolls — the view keeps sliding under your cursor so you can carry the clips well past what's currently on screen. No zooming out, dropping, scrolling, and picking them back up.
Step 5 — Delete them all at once
With the group selected, press the Delete key. Every selected clip is removed at once and a toast confirms it — "Deleted N clips", where N is however many you had. Best part: it's a single undo step. Change your mind and one Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) brings the whole group straight back, exactly where it was. You're never stuck pressing undo ten times to reverse ten deletions.
Step 6 — Do it zoomed out for big cleanups
Marquee selection works at any zoom level. Zoom the timeline out until you can see the whole recording, then drag one box over a long stretch of takes and delete them in one go. It's the fastest way to clear a bunch of bad takes or trim a run of overlays you decided against. Once the clutter's gone, you can tighten what's left — for example, remove silences and filler words from the keepers.
How it compares
This is a real non-linear editor interaction, the kind you know from desktop software — and most browser tools simply don't have it. Loom and the majority of browser recorders have no real timeline at all; you record and you're done, with no clip-level editing to speak of. Simple online editors often do have a timeline, but they only let you select one clip at a time, so deleting a run of ten clips means ten separate clicks and ten separate deletes.
Desktop editors like Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro do give you marquee selection — but you have to install them, learn them, and pay a subscription (or a hefty license) to use them. EZ Web Streams gives you the same drag-box multi-select, group move, and one-step group delete in a free browser editor with nothing to install. Open a tab and it's there.
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Start free →FAQ
How do I select multiple clips at once in the timeline?
Click on empty timeline space and drag a box across the clips you want. A dotted selection rectangle highlights every clip it touches. Release the mouse and they're all selected together — this is called marquee or rubber-band selection, the same interaction you'd use in Premiere or Vegas.
How do I delete several clips in one step?
Drag a box to select the clips, then press the Delete key. All of them are removed at once, a toast reads "Deleted N clips", and it counts as a single undo step — so one Ctrl+Z brings the whole group back if you change your mind.
Can I move a group of clips together?
Yes. After you marquee-select several clips, drag any one of them and the whole group moves together, keeping their spacing. Drag toward the edge of the timeline and it auto-scrolls so you can move clips a long way without zooming out first.
Does this work when the timeline is zoomed out?
Yes. Marquee selection works at any zoom level. Zoom out to see the whole recording, drag one box over a big stretch of clips, and act on them all at once. The Free plan records up to 5 minutes at 720p, unlimited, forever. Pro is $7.99/mo.