CS4 exporting chapter markers to Encore?

In my older version of Premiere Pro, exporting an AVI file that contained chapter markers readable by Encore was pretty simple. There was a checkbox on the export parameters screen, and as long as you checked it, Encore would be able to pick up the chapter markers.
It seems that life is not so simple in CS4.
The export dialogue in CS4 does not seem to have a checkbox for indicating that I want the chapter markers included in the metadata of the AVI files.
I did find and check the box for each individual marker to indicate that I wanted it to be treated as an Encore marker. But when I export the sequence to an AVI file and then import that AVI file into Encore, there are no chapter markers.
I read the help message, which recommended File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Send to Encore, but when I tried that option I found it to be a real pain in the neck. It wanted to create a brand-new Encore project, and I couldn't find a way to tell ilt to use my existing Encore project. Also, I will want to use the same sequence in more than one Encore project, so I really don't want to tie it to an individual project - I want to just export it as an AVI that contains the metadata to be usable in a variety of Encore projects that I may want to use it in.
Is there a way to do what my older version of Premiere Pro allowed me to do - export an AVI file that contains the necessary chapter markers for Encore?

En chapter markers can only be exported from CS4 if:
You send the sequence to En via Dynamic Link. The markers don't have to have a name in this case.
You name the chapter markers and export from Pr as MPEG2 DVD. In this case the chapter markers have to have a name, and you have to check "Include Source XMP Metadata" in the flyout menu of the Export Settings dialog. (The chapter marker information is included in the sidecar XMP file)
Gone is the ability to export chapter markers with AVI files.
Although you can't specify what En project you want from Pr when sending a sequence to En via Dynamic Link, you can open any En project and import one or more Pr sequences via Encore's File | Adobe Dynamic Link command.
-Jeff

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Thought I post my work for all to use. In the mean time, I also hope Adobe picks up this problem and posts a fix for it
If you use Encore chapter markers in Premiere, when you import the media in Encore, your chapter markers are nicely named "ThisIsAChapterMarkerFlag" (at least that is what happens with me and a few others: see other posts in this forum).
I was not so happy with the fix suggested in that post to manually correct the chapter markers in Encore, so I dug a little more.
I have tracked the error down to an error in the creation of the <media.m2v>.xmpses. After having verified that changing that file fixed the error, I decided to write a little program that does this for you, brushing up some very stale C knowledge and picking up a free Visual C++ environment from Microsoft.
Reason for automating is that every time you change the timeline in Premiere and re-export, you would have to do manual work in Encore again.
Well, a few days later, I did build the program and IT WORKS.
So this is how it works:
* Following the initial suggestion by bowden, when you create a chapter marker in Premiere, copy the name to the comment section of the chapter marker
* do your export in Premiere
* run the fix program in a dos prompt in the directory where the exports reside
* it will convert all the .xmpses files it finds there by copying the comment section to the name section
* import the media in Encore: voila, there are your chapter markers
If you want to pick up the program:
ftp://ftp.l3m.nu
user: Adobe
password: Xmpses
Oh and no comments please on the style of software writing, it has been more than 20 years since I wrote my last C program :-))
I think this also clearly shows this is a bug in CS4 Premiere (or the media exporter, eitherway). Adobe can you please look into this?
This will definitely work with the integrated work flows supported in CS4 i.e. clikcing on a timeline in Encore, bringing up the timeline for editing in Premiere. But that for know is only a small burden for me.
Hope this helps
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To All
Well I burnt some time for nothing: it appears that right when I was writing my fix program, Adobe released an update of the Media Encoder that has the problem fixed in the encoder.
So to all: forget my fix, make sure you update to the latest version of AME and you are fine
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It had been working fine since I bought the Mac Mini + software in 2013…)
I have already tried removing the markers, deleting all markers and making new ones, creating a new project and pasting the old sequence into it (without markers), creating new markers in the new project, etc...
I still cannot create a master file (unless I deselect 'use chapter markers'), or unless I select a range of the project which does not include markers!
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~D

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hypertext07 wrote:
Why would it do this? I simply restarted FCP and it is back to normal. But I dont understand why it would do this.
Ghosts in the machine.

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