Can I add chapters in my movie

Is it possible to add chapters with the new iMovie?

Of course Chapter tracks are useful for more things than just iDVD. It makes no sense to remove that capability.
I have had some success using Subler, https://code.google.com/p/subler, to add Chapters to the exported movie from iMovie 10. Subler is free and quick, but certainly not as easy to use as the old Chapter markers in previous iMovie versions.
Subler needs a time to associate with each Chapter, and that can be difficult to extract form iMovie 10. The Wrapped Timeline doesn’t show times. In the default timeline, I cannot find a way to get the time associated with the playhead or the skimmer. So far, I get the time for the where I want a Chapter, by splitting the clip at that point; then the elapsed time in the movie shows in the upper edge of the timeline. I put a list of Chapter times in a Text Edit file to reference for when I open the movie in Subler. The Chapters created by Subler are recognized by iDVD.
I have considered buying mChapters ($4.99) from the App Store which looks like it might be easier to use than Subler, but I don't know if the Chapters it generates are compatable with iDVD and the like. It appears they should be compatible.
iMovie 10 is much faster importing and exporting so I suppose that makes up for the extra effort and time consumed in inserting Chapters.

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In a text editor, like TextEdit in the Applications folder, type your list of chapters.
Make each item very short (preferably one word but no more than two or three words) and separate each item with a carriage return.
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Click Options. In the Text Export Settings dialog, select "Show Text, Descriptors, and Time"; select "Show time relative to start of Movie"; and set fractions of seconds to 1/30.
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Use the Right and Left Arrow keys to step forward or backward a frame at a time as needed. Note the current time in the Inspector window.
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*{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}one*
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Thanks for explaining that in detail Mike.

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