Keeping chapter markers after compressing

Why are my chapter markers disappearing after I compress a file. Example: start with a DV file with chapter makers created in FCP and the markers show up in the Quicktime player but when I compress them to H.264 with Compressor or any other type of program (included exporting them out of the Quicktime player) the markers are gone. I have seen many other H.264 movies on the web with the markers in them so I know that it can be done.
Dual 2.7 G5/ Dual 2.0 G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   30" Apple Monitors, Final Cut Studio

Thanks for the tip, and I got it to work but here are a couple of things to clairify for others. To extract the chapter(s) info out of the movie you go to Window:Show movie properties, enable the Text Track(not called chapter track) and select only that track to Extract. A new movie is created, that just looks like a white bar with the chapter names in them, select all and copy. Then go to your compressed movie and Edit:Add to Selection & Scale.
Now the movie will not look right, to fix this: go to Window:Show movie properties, uncheck the enable button on the text track, in the "other settings" for the text track make sure "Chapters" is selected to "Text track", now go to "Visual Settings" and change the scaled size to match the width of you movie and make the height 20 pixels (320 x 20 for me) and all is well. If I enable the text track the name of the chapter markers appear in a white box at the top of the screen.
It sounds complicated but once you do it once or twice it's easy to do. Now if anyone knows of a better way???????
Dual 2.7 G5/ Dual 2.0 G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   30" Apple Monitors, Final Cut Studio

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