Exporting HD from iMovie to Quicktime HD but chapters not visible

Hi, I edited a screen recording video (shot with QuickTime) with iMovie. Added chapters but when EXPORT - USE QUICKTIME and set properites to HD format, once done (5 hours) chapters are not available in Quicktime.
Can anyone help?
I read that when exporting to tiny video format, chapters are not available but here I' exportin to an HD format.
Thank you

I didn''t convert SD to HD.
"Added chapters but when EXPORT - USE QUICKTIME and set properites to HD format, once done (5 hours) chapters are not available in Quicktime." This sentence seems to imply you were not using default export dimensions but rather specifically setting HD dimensions manually. I also assumed the "EXPORT - USE QUICKTIME" to be a reference to the use of the "Export using QuickTime..." opyion which, as I previously mentioned, does not support creation of the chapter track. Had you used the "Export Movie" option using an appropriately dimensioned preset, then the output file would have included the chapter track (or at least iMovie '11 does). Also, as previously mentioned, sending the iMovie project to iDVD creates both a chaptered DVD and a chaptered MOV file "killing two birds with one stone."
I simply don't understand why, if iMovie enables you to create and edit chapters, although following the guide (which says that chapters will be visible on various formats and programs such ad QuickTime), they do not appear.
Once again, a chaptered file would have been created if you had used one of the normal preset options. If you used the "Export using QuickTime..." option, then you are manually overriding the ability to create the chapter track.
In the end I created them with a text editor and QuickTime Pro, but it was extra work which shouldn't have been necessary.
As previously noted, once the file is in the desired target compression format, you can use GarageBand's GUI to graphically add the chapter markers to the source content. This means that if the source file you edited in iMovie was already in the desired compression format, you could have saved 5 hours by not being forced to re-compress the data upone export of the chapter track. Another GUI chaptering app that may still work would be Metadata Hootenanny. As to manually chaptering files using QT 7 Pro, it is a simple work flow, but as you pointed out, does require extra work on the part of the user and is not graphically oriented for single pass use.

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