Change Quicktime Thumbnail in Finder

In my Finder windows, .avi and .mov format Quicktime (QT) movies have a thumbnail preview that is automatically generated from a poster frame.
*I know I could select another "poster" frame from the file, but I want to use a still image*.
With other formatted files, I can copy an icon image, open, "get info," for the file, highlight the icon on the top left, and paste in the still image, and it appears in the finder as that documents icon.
With these QT movie files, while the "get info," window allows me to paste a still image into its icon, it does not appear as the files icon in the finder, its icon is still just the poster frame.
Is there any workaround of this default behavior, so I can use a still image as an icon for one of these QT files?
(Yes, I have Perian Installed.)

Thanks again orangekay. (BTW, I do have QT Pro.)
+You don't have to render anything to add a frame to a QuickTime movie. Just copy and paste.+
But I would have to, in many cases, if I only want there to be one file.
Because it really does depend on the exact codec, and container type that I am starting with.
You idea worked for me on an h.264, .mov file that I created myself. But, the still image has to be the exact aspect ratio of the movie file, or the still, or the movie file itself, becomes offset in the QT window. So, this requires working on the still's aspect ratio in Photoshop or some other editing software, which although I do have, is too much extra work.
Meanwhile, this does not work with an Xvid .avi that I did not create myself. Though the file allowed me to paste the still in, when I tried to save the file, it gave me the radio button dialogue box, asking me if i wanted the mov to be self-contained, or a reference movie.
Now, I could chose reference movie, and save the disk space, but then I still have two files, and would be better off just using an alias for the movie, (which allows me to paste an icon), and save the trouble of having to set the stills aspect ratio in another program.

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