Chapters and Sound in iMovie

Yes I know that for some stupid reason Apple have moved adding chapters to Garage Band, makes absolute complete sense to do this when trying to make movies.....but having put up with this I find that Garage Band has moved my sound from the iMovie and deleted some of the sound....
Now the movie and sound doesnt match up.
Alsoin Garage Band when adding markers the video at the top doesnt match with the video window on the right side, making adding chapters difficult.
Any advice welcome....
thanks Colin

Which is the best quality result for doing the above work ?
Ideally, the work flow requiring the fewest re-compressions.
Better to share to iTunes in full quality, from iMovie, followed by dragging to garage band for chaptering and then share to iTunes the final movie from garage band ? ... The normal procedure would be share to media browser in iMovie to work in garage band and finally share to iTunes from within garage band. But I don't know nothing about loss of quality. Any advice ?
Do you have specific requirements regarding the final file container?
1) If not, then you could share your file from iMovie '08 to the Media Browser using the specific preset for your final target compression format -- e.g., iPhone, iPod, or TV. You can then open Media Browser file in GarageBand, chapter it, and Export or Share it using the "Full Quality" option. This work flow will place the chapter track, the original video, and the audio into an MOV file container which is compatible with iTunes.
2) On the other hand, if you want the final chaptered content to be in an M4V file container, you would probably do better to export the iMovie '08 project via the "Export using QuickTime" option as a high quality/high data rate compressed file, open it in GarageBand, chapter it, and then "Send" it on to iTunes using a selected target preset. This option re-compresses the audio and video and places them in the M4V file container along with your chapter track.
Note: Different file containers have different features/capabilities. For instance, if you use an internal frame as the "Poster" frame, then an MOV file would be fine here. If, on the other hand, you want to associate an external image file as your "Poster" frame in iTunes, the you would need to use an M4V or MP4 file container.

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