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# Recipe cookbook 📝
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Here you can find many common use cases that can help you effectivize your workflow. 🏎️
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You can often bind actions to hotkeys to make it faster. ⌨️
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## Export cut times as YouTube Chapters ▶️
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1. Export with Merge and "Create chapters from merged segments" enabled.
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2. Open the exported file and select "Import chapters" in the dialog.
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3. File -> Export project -> YouTube Chapters.
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## Re-encode only the audio track, keeping the lossless video track 🔊
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1. Export each video/audio track to individual files.
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2. Use Handbrake or similar to re-encode the audio file (if MP4/MOV file, encode it as AAC.)
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3. Open the extracted video stream in LosslessCut. The open your encoded audio file and select "Include all tracks from the new file".
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4. Export.
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## Advanced multi-step workflows 🔢
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Use LosslessCut in multiple passes in order to achieve separate trimming of individual tracks:
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1. Open a file an export all tracks as individual files.
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2. Open the exported track files independently and cut them as desired.
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3. Add the track back to the video and combine them to one output video.
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## Cut multiple files and merge them all
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See also [#2631](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/2631).
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1. Drag-drop source files (from the same camera/source) into losslesscut to open them in the batch list.
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2. Sort them as needed.
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3. Open the first file and edit it as needed.
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4. Open the export options dialog.
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5. Open "Output file names", edit the template and set it to e.g.:
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- `my-movie-all-segments-${String(EXPORT_COUNT).padStart(3, '0')}-${String(SEG_NUM_INT).padStart(3, '0')}${EXT}`
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- This will make sure that output file names will be created in the order of export and order of segment, e.g.: `my-movie-all-segments-001-001.mp4`
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6. Export.
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7. Now open each of the rest of the files in the batch list in the order that you want them, edit and export.
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8. Once done exporting all, close the batch list.
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9. You will have a folder with all the ordered segments, now drag drop them into LosslessCut and sort by name in the batch list.
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10. Merge
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## Export all keyframes as images
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1. Tools -> Create segments from keyframes
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2. Right click on a segment in the segment list
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3. Edit segments by expression
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4. Convert segments to markers
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5. OK
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6. Right click on a segment in the segment list
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7. Extract frames from selected segments as image files
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See also [#2692](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/2692).
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## Efficient workflow for repeated single file operation
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If you need to e.g. always select certain tracks, then always select certain segments.
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1. Run ⌨️`toggleStripAll` to deselect all tracks
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2. *(Only once:)* Click "Filter tracks" (top left), enter the expression: `track.codec_type === 'video' || track.codec_type === 'audio'`
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3. Run ⌨️`toggleStripCurrentFilter` to select only audio and video tracks
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4. Run ⌨️`deselectAllSegments` to deselect all segments
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5. Run ⌨️`selectSegmentsByExpr`
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6. Paste the expression `segment.label === 'My label' && segment.duration < 5` (from your clipboard)
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7. Press <kbd>Enter</kbd>
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8. ⌨️`export`
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Now for every file you want to do this, you repeat the steps. See also [#2699](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/discussions/2699).
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