What Happened to my Thumbnails?

In my Apple TV library, I have MANY MANY movies & TV shows that come from videotapes that I taped off of TV and converted into digital files. These are NOT items that were purchased from the Apple store. Before converting to Catalina, each clip/show/movie had a thumbnail of a frame from the clip. It was chosen automatically from the clip about 5 seconds, in but I could also pick my own cover image - find the frame I wanted, freeze it, right click and select it to be my 'cover art'.

Now, with Catalina, all those images are gone - on every clip that is not a purchased item, I have the null image, the gray box with an outline of a TV screen.

How can I get them back? The option to right-click and select my own is also gone.

Mac Pro

Posted on Jun 13, 2020 10:42 PM

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Urquhart1244

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Posted on Jun 14, 2020 1:07 AM

“Poster frames” as they were called, are currently ignored, in favor of MP4 artwork tags. This may or may not be deliberate.

You may set this artwork in the TV app (title﹥Get Info﹥Artwork), or in a third party tagging app. You will have to create an separate image file for each media file.

You can of course give feedback to Apple about your investment and dependability on the old way. Product Feedback - Apple

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