iTunes doesn't retain thumbnails for movies ?

[Kevin Callahan]

On May 26, 2007, at 6:00 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 26-May-2007, at 18:09, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>> I've consolidated some libraries today --
>> have some 450 movie snippets in my iTunes Movies library --
>> I browse them via album art and iTunes grabs a frame to use as  
>> thumbnail
>>
>> if I go back to my music library, then back to my movies library,  
>> i have to re-cache all the movie thumbnails -
>
> What view are you using?

coverflow

>
> I have Coverflow for my movies (120 of them) and Grouped fir TV  
> Shows (350) and switching from them to my music and back seems to  
> be as fast as anything else in iTunes.  That is to say, not quite  
> instantaneous, but also not like I think it's re-examining every  
> video file.

switching is fast, but loading the artwork takes a bit of time

>
> What are the TYPE of videos?  (mine are m4v or mp4 files)

.mov or .m4v mostly

>
> My only complaint is that too many of the thumbnails are just black  
> because the movies or shows have a second or so of black screen at  
> the start, but a simple rclick -> Set Poster Frame takes care of it,

i don't see a contextual menu for "Set Poster Frame"


> I just have to do it for each movie manually.  Not a huge deal.
>
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