IMovie is choosing an image from my film to click on to "play" my movie. Can I choose another image?

I'm running iMovie 10.0.5 on OSX 10.9.5. When I export the movie to share it with others, iMovie generates a thumbnail image to click on to play the movie. This is different from the image selected to be the "iconic" representation of the film in the "Theater" section of iMovie. I'd like to select another image that a user would click on to play the movie and wondered how to specify that. Thank you!

nope, i check of course. it really is not one of us. i would like to know if there is a way to find out whether the picture was taken with my phone of whether it was sent to me from an external sourde. i am just not technical at all. thank you for your reply though!

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