Annotation plist format for Compressor 3.5

I'm looking for the format for annotations when running compressor from the command line. While the syntax for command line processing seems the same between version 3 and 3.5, the annotation plist format has either changed or I've encountered a new bug.
The format for version 3 is described here: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/cat_tutorials.html
However this will NOT work for compressor 3.5 as included in FC Studio 3.
It's worth noting that compressor won't give an error if using the old plist format, it just won't put the annotations into the output quicktime file.
I've got a call into Apple Professional support on this but comments from others would be helpful. I'm encountering this problem on a system with Snow Leopard and all updates as of the date of this posting.
Message was edited by: nessak

I mean it's still Episode, it has Plugin for Compressor. With plugin installed you have an ability to encode flv right in Compressor.
As an alternative it can be Sorenson Squeze (On2 VP6 for Flash): http://www.sorensonmedia.com/video-encoding/

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