Auto Chapter Markers at each new clip

I have hundreds of video clips that I am going to be putting into a number of different FCP projects.
They don't need much editing, but some do need a bit. However, they all need a chapter marker at the very beginning (i.e. before clip 1) and further chapter marks between each clip. Obviously the end of the last clip doesn't need a mark. I am hoping there is a way to get FCP to do this very quickly?
Regards

Basically there are about 25 "events", with there respective video files in folders on an external. I am going to import each folder into its own sequence in FCP, add all the clips to the timeline, make any adjustments, add chapter marks between each clip and export the file. I don't mind when I add the chapter marks, be it when adding to the timeline or when editing or exporting etc. There is only one event with more than 100 clips (208). The final files won't be that long, and I will add each file into DVDSP and make each one a track with individual chapters. So if the limit is 99 chapters per track, it doesn't really matter except for the one event, which I don't mind splitting up.
The piece in bold is what I am wondering about now, and I would like it to be as automatic as possible. The rest is just background info.
Regards

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