choose which frame of a .mov file is represented by the icon?

[ero87]

Hi friends,

So I have a lot of movie files, but most of them look like the attached photo. Is there a way to somehow scroll through the movie and choose a frame to set as the movie icon, instead of just a black screen? This would be amazing!

Thanks

 

[Tsurisuto]

Hi friends,

So I have a lot of movie files, but most of them look like the attached photo. Is there a way to somehow scroll through the movie and choose a frame to set as the movie icon, instead of just a black screen? This would be amazing!

Thanks

I agree 100%. Plus it should be rather simple for Apple to implement.

 

[cardsdoc]

I'm not sure if this requires quicktime pro or not but just scroll to the frame you want and go to view->set poster frame, then save the file. This seems to work for me.

 

[ero87]

I'm not sure if this requires quicktime pro or not but just scroll to the frame you want and go to view->set poster frame, then save the file. This seems to work for me.

beautiful! exactly what i wanted, thanks a lot.

 

[xUKHCx]

I'm not sure if this requires quicktime pro or not but just scroll to the frame you want and go to view->set poster frame, then save the file. This seems to work for me.

This takes a little while to save if the file is large and it also changed the extension.

A better way to do this is to scroll to the place you want. Press cmd+c and then on the actual file press cmd+i and at the top where there is the icon next to the name , select the icon and press cmd+v. You may have to restart Finder to see the change reflected.