Cover Flow: Can I change a movie thumbnail to a different frame?

The frame chosen by the cover flow to represent a movie is often perfect, but occasionally provides ambiguous information.
I was wondering if there was a way, hopefully an easy way, to change the frame that is used?

There is another very simple way to get the exact artwork you want to be displayed for your icon. You may have noticed that the earlier suggestion of changing the "Poster" requires the movie to be "saved" again. This can be very time consuming. And this doesn't address artwork for files that do not open in Quicktime.
See if this helps.
You can paste any image you want onto the files icon. Find that image that you want and copy it to the clipboard (there are several ways to do this, depending on the source of the image - hopefully, you'll already know how to copy the image)... Next, in the Finder window, highlight the file you want add artwork to. Then, in the FILE Menu, select GET INFO. At the top of the subsequent window, you will see an icon... the same icon as is being displayed in the Finder. Click on this icon once, to highlight it. Then Paste your artwork on top... bam!.... You're done.

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