Editing · Tutorial · July 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Making the same change to twenty clips one at a time is the kind of busywork that makes editing feel like a chore. In the EZ Web Streams editor you can drag a box around a whole run of clips and change all of them at once — one Speed for the group, crop or scale them together, delete the lot, or zip every source file into a single download. Here's how batch editing works, and why it turns a ten-minute cleanup into a few clicks.
Step 1 — Marquee-select the clips
Open your project in the editor. On the timeline, put your cursor on empty space and drag a box across the clips you want. Every clip the box touches gets selected — this is marquee (rubber-band) selection, the same drag-to-grab you know from desktop editors. Sweep over three clips or thirty; it's one motion either way. (For just moving or deleting a group, see selecting and moving multiple clips — this article is about changing them all at once.)
Step 2 — Meet the batch panel
The moment you have a multi-clip selection, a batch panel appears. It shows a combined Speed and Duration for the whole selection, plus a centered toolbar with four actions:
- Crop — copy one crop setting to every selected clip.
- Scale — copy one scale/zoom to every selected clip.
- Delete — remove the whole selection.
- Download — zip all the source files.
Whatever you touch here lands on all the selected clips, not just one.
Step 3 — Set one Speed for the whole group
Change the Speed in the batch panel and every selected clip takes that speed at once — bump a run of b-roll to 1.5×, or slow a set of clips to 0.5× for a montage, in a single move. The combined Duration updates so you can see how long the group runs after the change. And it's one undo step: if the pace isn't right, a single Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) reverts the whole batch, not clip by clip.
Step 4 — Crop or scale them all the same
Click Crop or Scale and the setting you choose is copied to every clip in the selection. This is how you make a stack of clips share the same framing — crop a batch to the same region, or push the same zoom across a sequence so they cut together cleanly instead of jumping around. One decision, applied evenly, instead of eyeballing the same crop thirty times. If you want per-clip keyframed zoom and pan on a single clip, that still lives on the individual clip; this is the "make them all match" tool.
Step 5 — Delete the whole selection (with a heads-up)
Click Delete and EZ Web Streams asks "delete N clips?" so a big removal is never an accident. Confirm and the whole group is gone in one undoable step — a single Ctrl+Z brings them all back. It's the quickest way to clear a run of bad takes or a section you cut from the story, without deleting one, clicking, deleting the next, clicking, over and over.
Step 6 — Download every source as a ZIP
Click Download and EZ Web Streams zips the source files of every selected clip into one archive named project-date.zip and saves it to your computer. It's the fast way to pull all the raw pieces out at once — to back up a project, hand the footage to a collaborator, or reuse the clips somewhere else — instead of saving each file on its own. Select all, one click, one ZIP.
Step 7 — Time-stretch a whole selection at once
There's a shortcut for speed that feels great once it's in your hands: Ctrl+drag the edge of any selected clip and the whole selection time-stretches to one speed together. Drag the edge in to speed the group up, out to slow it down — you're setting the pace of the entire run by pulling one handle, and it stays a single undo. It's the tactile version of typing a Speed value, for when you'd rather feel the timing than pick a number.
How it compares
Batch multi-clip editing has always been a desktop NLE thing. Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro let you select a bunch of clips and change their speed or properties together — but you have to install them, learn them, and pay for them (a subscription, or a license that isn't cheap). It's power that comes with a lot of overhead.
Most browser editors go the other way: they make you edit one clip at a time. Change the speed on this clip, then the next, then the next — the exact repetition batch editing exists to kill. EZ Web Streams brings the desktop batch workflow into the browser: marquee-select, set one Speed, crop and scale the group, delete with a confirm, Ctrl+drag to stretch the whole selection, and download every source as a ZIP — free, nothing installed. It's real editor muscle without the real editor download.
Change twenty clips in one move
Batch Speed, crop, scale, delete and ZIP download — one undo each, no install, free to start.
Start free →FAQ
How do I select multiple clips to edit at once?
In the EZ Web Streams timeline, drag a box across empty space to marquee-select every clip it touches. A batch panel appears showing controls that apply to all of the selected clips at once, and a centered toolbar with Crop, Scale, Delete, and Download. Everything you do from there affects the whole selection, not one clip.
Can I set the same speed for many clips in one step?
Yes. With several clips selected, the batch panel shows a combined Speed and Duration. Change the Speed and it applies to every selected clip at once — as a single undoable step. You can also Ctrl+drag the edge of any selected clip to time-stretch the whole selection to one speed at the same time.
What does the batch Download button do?
Download zips the source files of every selected clip into a single archive named project-date.zip and saves it to your computer. It's the fast way to pull all the raw pieces of a project out at once — for backup, for handing off to someone else, or for using the footage elsewhere — instead of exporting or saving clips one by one.
Can I delete a whole group of clips together?
Yes. Select the clips and click Delete in the batch toolbar. It asks "delete N clips?" to confirm, then removes them all in one undoable step, so a single Ctrl+Z brings the group back. Crop and Scale work the same way — the setting you choose is copied to every selected clip. The Free plan records up to 5 minutes at 720p, unlimited, forever. Pro is $7.99/mo.