How to automate creating movie poster frames?

Hello.
I have a fairly large movie library in itunes now, about 500 movies. I know how to right click a frame of a movie and set a poster frame. However this seems very slow and doesn't always work perfectly. Does anyone have any ideas or scripts that would automate the process? Even if it just sets the poster frame at 2 minutes into every movie it would be better than the 1st frame, Thanks for any ideas.

I have not had my question answered yet. I am guessing its not possible. However the problem you mentioned is not an issue for me. I can pause a video, right click on it, and the bottom choice is to set a poster frame.
What I want is to have something automate the process of picking a different point as the poster frame without having to select it on each and every video. I have 500 videos and this could take way too long. I would imagine there is an easier way to set all videos to use the 30 second mark as the poster frame.

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