DVD Chapter Marker Generation

Is there a way to automatically generate chapter markers.
Also is there a way to take a text file and have DVD Studio Pro parse it into chapter markers?
Thanks in advance.

You can make a list, yes.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/chapter_marker_listsstitzer.html
In fact, you can make a list with markers set for every however minutes you want. Then import the list into any project and markers will be set every 5 minutes.

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