Artwork in .mov files

Is there a way to edit the artwork metadata (used in coverflow view) for .mov files? I can replace the artwork for MPEG-4 movies in the info pane for the movie, but QT movies won't let me delete the screenshot artwork and replace it with a movie poster.

Annoying, isn't it?
It's because the album art is encoded and stored in the MP4 container in a metadata atom (the "covr" atom, apparently), so it's right there in the file.
The QuickTime container doesn't have support for this (yet, hopefully), and all it will allow is contain a reference to a poster frame.
Taking a hint from how JACKET_P files are used in the DVD domain, I just created an image of the movie poster centered on a black field, formatted that image to the resolution of the movie, and put that image in another video layer in the MOV file, right near the end. Then I set that frame as the poster frame.
It's a hack. I'm not proud.

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