Export fcp 5 to compressor, bye-bye chapter markers

If I'm reading the manuals and the pro training books right, the only way to export chapter markers from FCP 5 is to a QT movie. That kinda stinks a little.
Would a workaround be to export to QT and then run compressor as stand-alone? Seems like an extra step, more time and a possiblity of introducing artifacts from all of the handling.
I also tried to export markers as text file. DVD SP can import a chapter marker text file.
My original plan was to create the chapter markers in Compressor so I would get exact i-frame placement, but what a royal pain! At least in FCP you can bang through them with keyboard shortcuts.
- Eric

How much space is left on that external drive? As to the rez of your timeline, pick the sequence, and select Command-0 (that's a zero). The dialogue box will tell you what codec you're working with.
Without knowing anything else, you will definitely experience better performance by exporting to a different drive than your media is on - that drive is being asked to both read and write at the same time, which slows it down considerably. If you can export it to a different drive, you can expect to see your export time cut perhaps in half.
However, six hours is still way too long. There's some other problem going on here, it may be the drive being too full or perhaps the rez of your sequence is really high.

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