Adding Chapters in Quicktime X

Hi all
I'm trying to add chapters to a video of mine. I've tried following this tutorial:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/chaptertracks.html
but it it appears to have been written for the old Quicktime 7 Pro. As such, I cannot open a text file, as it says in the article.
Would I be right in saying that Quicktime X has replaced both Quicktime 7 Player and Quicktime 7 Pro? Or is the pro version of Quicktime 7 still superior to Quicktime X?
Very confusing...
Thanks,
-James

Would I be right in saying that Quicktime X has replaced both Quicktime 7 Player and Quicktime 7 Pro? Or is the pro version of Quicktime 7 still superior to Quicktime X?
If you are referring to track, layer, masking, merging, scaling, and/or similar operation, then QT 7 Pro is still the only real choice at this software level.

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1) First, create your movie in iMovie. Then Share it using Share to iTunes, Share to Media Browser, etc.
2) Now, Open GarageBand.
3) Select "Create a new music project" (not "create a new podcast episode")
4) Give your project a name and click "Create" (The time signature and all that stuff does not matter)
5) You might see a grand piano keyboard. Click the red dot at the upper left corner of the keyboard to get rid if it.
6) Now, at the bottom right corner of GarageBand, you should see a button for the Media Browser. Click it, and you should be able to find your movie.
7) Drag your movie from the Media Browser to the main garageband area where it says "Drag Apple Loops here". It will create a video track with thumbnails for skimming and an audio track.
8) At this point, you will also see a "Grand Piano Track" which is a default. You can delete it by selecting the Grand Piano track, and then clicking in the menus TRACK/DELETE.
Now, the only tracks remaining are your movie.
9) Select your Movie Track and you will see the pane below where you enter Chapter names. In GarageBand terms these are Markers.
10) Move the GarageBand playhead to the point in your movie where you want the first chapter. Click Add Marker. Your Chapter will have a default name of "Chapter 1" but you can click on it and change it. Make sure there is a checkmark by "marks a chapter" (not "marks a URL")
11) Repeat step 10 until you have all your chapters.
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I trying to create navigation on Encore by adding chapters between chapters I've already created and selected in Premiere. Let me explain more in detail what I'm trying to do. I have a two hour timeline that I divided in four chapters by using markers in Premiere, that works just fine when i create my dvd; but what I want to do it's add 3 minutes chapters between those four chapters already selected, so that when it plays on a dvd player, it can be rewinded or fast forwarded quicker, so that it can move 3 minutes back or forth during the process instead of going slowly throughtout the entire dvd.
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I believe the answer is no. If you want to make a feature request, see this link:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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I assume the "drive you are working from" is an external. I wonder if that is the issue. I don't recall users complaining about this much of a slowdown.
What format is the file? I guess you don't say: is this dynamic link?
I assumed problems with scrolling down the timeline, but you mean a delay in Encore processing the new chapter marker, right?
Does it do it if the next chater is only 5 seconds down the timeline?
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Yes; you will have an additional file with chapter markers.
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