Missing video thumbnails

Using Photoshop Elements 7 and Premier Elements 8 on a Dell Inspiron with Windows 7 which was upgraded from XP to 7 in December. I had to uninstall both programs in order to do this. I recently reinstalled the programs because I have time now to work with my photos and videos. Last year I started using a Sony Handycam 650 to shoot videos and loaded all videos into Photoshop. Everything was fine. I had thumbnails for all the videos and photos. Now when I import videos from the camera or the hard drive I don't get thumbnails. What I get are blue boxes with a filmstrip on it. They are not the missing file thumbnail. I can play the videos and I can edit but without the thumbnails it is very hard to add any tags. I haven't made any changes to the default settings on the camera since I am a novice with a video camera and the default seemed to work just fine. I looked through several pages in this forum and did not find anything on this problem. Hope someone can help.

AHHH HA!!!
I solved the problem!
It has nothing to do with the format of the video. Simply open it in quicktime (not sure if you need pro or not) and click "view - set poster frame." Then save the movie and reimport into itunes. This was probably very simple and I just overlooked it, but I hope this solution helps other people with the same problem!

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