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How to change which frame is grabbed for the finder icon of a movie file for Mac OS X Finder?

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Mar 15, 202614208 views
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Movie files show in Mac OS X Finder with an example frame from the movie. Unfortunately, it's captured from fairly early in the movie, so that different episodes of a series, or perhaps different movies from the same studio, will all end up with with essentially the same frame from the titles, rath…

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Fix for: How to change which frame is grabbed for the finder icon of a movie file for Mac OS X Finder?

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Indeed, the choice of still frames is sometimes very bad. I'm not aware of any way to do this automatically, but in general, you can change the icon for anything in Finder using the following method. 1. Getting a proper screenshot Open the movie in …

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