Importing Adobe Premiere m2v's w/chapter markers into DVDSP?

Working on a project where the m2v files are being created by someone else using Adobe Premiere 2.0 on a PC. (They're creating the chapter markers within Premiere)
In my initial tests, I'm able to get the video and audio files (m2v, ac3) into DVDSP, but not chapter markers.
Does anyone have experience with this kind of situation?
Is there an export setting in Adobe Premiere that would help?
An import setting in DVDSP that would help?
Is it possible to import Adobe Premiere created m2v's into DVDSP with chapter markers?
Thanks.
G5 - Dual 2GHz Processor   Mac OS X (10.3.6)  

the meta data that premiere stores its chapter marker info is not compatible with dvdsp. That being the case, you could have your friend give you a text document with the timecodes for the chapter markers in a column, each timecode followed by the chapter name if you want something other than the standard "chapter 1, chapter 2" etc.
Because your friend chose the chapter markers in premiere, when the m2v was encoded, the apropriate I-Frames were placed so that in DVDSP you should have no problem placing a chapter marker at the exact timecode your friend specifies.
hope that helps

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