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Using the Trim tool, you can drag a bounding box to select multiple edits
There is also a flexible set of keyboard shortcuts that makes it easy to select edit points in preparation for various operations if you like to avoid using the mouse.
— V: Selects the nearest edit point to the playhead on the lowest track with Auto Select enabled. Selects both the audio and video edit points of a clip together.
— Option-E: Selects the nearest video edit point to the playhead on the lowest track with Auto Select enabled. Linked audio edit points are not selected.
— Shift-E: Selects the nearest audio edit point to the playhead on the lowest track with Auto Select enabled. Linked video edit points are not selected.
— U: Once you’ve selected an edit point, this shortcut toggles among selecting the outgoing half, incoming half, or the entire edit.
— Option-U: Once you’ve selected an edit point, this shortcut toggles among selecting the video+audio of the edit, just the video, or just the audio.
— Select a single edit point, then use the Up Arrow key (Previous Edit) or Down Arrow key (Next Edit) to change the selection to the previous or next edit point among all tracks with Auto Select turned on.
— Using the mouse: Click any empty area of the Timeline.
— Using the keyboard: Press Shift-Command-A.
A Practical Example of Keyboard-Driven Selections
Here’s an example of how you would use these keyboard shortcuts together as a sequence of operations.
1 Press Command-4 to give focus to the Timeline.
2 Move the Timeline playhead close to the edit point you want to select using the JKL keys.
3 Press the V key to select the nearest edit point to the playhead on the lowest track with Auto Select enabled. If there are overlapping superimposed clips on multiple tracks, turn off the Auto Select controls of tracks with edits you don’t want to select using Option-F1 through Option-F8 corresponding to the Auto Select controls on tracks 1–8. Using the mouse, you can solo a track’s Auto Select state by Option-clicking its Auto Select button. (Option-F9 toggles the Auto Select controls of all video tracks.)
4 Initially, the entire edit is selected, in preparation for a roll edit. To toggle among selecting the outgoing half, incoming half, and the entire edit, press the U key.