Can't add artwork to new movies

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You nailed it! MovieIcon is the app to use.

But you don't have to re-import the movies. After adding the artwork, it doesn't show up in iTunes. But when you go to 'Get Info' from that particular movie, just add some extra info on one of the tabs, e.g. in Details or Description and hit 'OK'. The new info will be saved and, just like magic, the artwork also appears!

This even works on movies that you already have stored on a NAS.

Don't know if you are still having the issue but I just had the same problem and I fixed it by letting the movie run out then when I added the artwork, instead of dragging it, I clicked 'add' and picked the file from my hard drive. It seems to have fixed the bug. (don't know if letting the movie run out is required but it couldn't hurt). Hope that helps!

After you've added the artwork (either from pasting or adding the file), click on the picture so it has a blue frame. You'll notice that the "delete" button becomes active. If you press OK at this point, the artwork should save.

I didn't have to let the movie run out for this to work - hope it works for you!

None of these options are working for me. I'm using the latest iTunes (10.2.2.12) under Windows 7. I used to be able to add artwork but it recently stopped working.

One interesting thing is that the file itself does not get modified (still has yesterday's date on it). I am still able to add art to music however. The movie artwork may be stored in a separate database that has possibly reached its limit? If so this is quite sad-- I only have a few dozen movies in the library.

Some video file formats don't take embedded artwork, and iTunes won't attempt to update a file if it can't get write access to it. Read-only flags, security permissions or even Explorer trying to create a preview image might prevent access.

The artwork cache is divided into two sections, one for art downloaded directly from the iTunes store and not embedded in tags, the other holds a cached copy of anything embedded. Neither has any practical limit other than the capacity of the drive.

It might be worth downloading the latest build (10.2.2.14) directly from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ as the software update tools won't find it. It might not make a difference, but it can't hurt to try.

tt2

Later today I was able to add artwork to another movie successfully. It seems to have to do with file size. All these movies are M4V files, playable through AppleTV2. But the ones I'm having trouble adding art to are 3GB and larger. Why would that matter?

The operation might time out, or you may just need to be very patient with it. I'd also make sure you have a backup before you attempt to add artwork just in case something goes wrong when iTunes tries to manuipulate the large files. It may have to rebuild the entire file in order to generate the room to store the extra tag information at the start of the file.

tt2

Runnig the film to the end worked for me. First time I've seen this problem.

Why has Apple not sorted this issue out yet? I have spent two nights trawling the net to find answers - NONE work. I would like a straight answer from Apple.

Can you add Art Work to movies that I have ripped legitimately from my collection, or can't you, and if you can't, is this forever??