Can I recompress without losing Chapter markers?

Hi all,
I have a couple of QT movies (m4v) that I exported from FCP using compressor that have chapter markers which show up great in QT. I want to make the movies smaller still (they are about 800MB at the moment, I really need less than 500MB) but if I try and select the compressor options (QVGA) that will get the movie that small, I seem to lose the chapter markers. I'm thinking maybe I can use the chapter markered QT file as the source and just compress that but Compressor does not seem to import the Chapter markers from the QT file it created!!
Any ideas? Many thanks

Have a look at http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/ljchapter_markersH264.html and http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1370584

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