"Album art" of Movies in iTunes library

I would like to make use of the iTunes movie library to catalogue all my DVD's. So far I have made QT movies of the trailers/intros and then added them to the library. So that each movie icon will show the "Album art" I have added this to the beginning of each QT movie as a 5 second clip and assigned the poster frame at the beginning of this.
When I add these movies to my library the icon that is displayed shows a frame in the movie some way past the poster frame and generally in the actual trailer rather than the bit I created.
Any help understanding this and solving it would be appreciated.
Nick.
PowerMac G5 DC Mac OS X (10.4.9) iBook G3, G4 350mHz

iTunes will normally set the Poster frame at 10 seconds in... I don't know why it doesn't seem to use the Poster frame set in QT, but you have a choice of leaving the poster/album art up for more than 10s when you do the file in QT, or you can set the Poster frame in iTunes (while the movie is playing, Ctrl-click it)

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