Quicktime Movie Cover Art

I saw a thread addressing a similar issue. The previous one had the same issue as I am having, that the cover art that iTunes selects for an imported MOV file is some frame in the middle of the movie. However, I want to be able to set the theatrical poster or DVD cover as the cover art, instead of manually setting a fram of the movie as the poster. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

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Posted on Mar 24, 2007 8:28 PM

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Apr 5, 2007 12:18 PM in response to Mikey Rogers

We, too, are having this problem.

You used to be able to just get info on the movie and paste the artwork into the artwork field.

However, as of iTunes 7.1.1, you can no longer do this for MOV files - the artwork tab is greyed out.

We are hoping to find a solution to this problme soon. In the meantime, I have another Mac with iTunes 7.1 installed on it and are moving our MOV files there, setting the artwork, and then moving them into the proper computer that is running iTunes 7.1.1. It's a huge pain in the * but it's a valid work-around until Apple fixes the problem.

Jul 9, 2007 7:27 PM in response to Mikey Rogers

I believe what you are experiencing has to do with the file type. I'm not certain that Muxed file types can accept poster art. I've found that as long as I'm working with MPEG-4 files, I've got no problem attaching artwork, but some other/earlier file types won't accept it.

Try this trick before giving up though: change the file extension to m4v

Additional hint: http://handbrake.m0k.org/ has a great support website.

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