ITunes Movie Artwork - software to embed Artwork

I know you can embed the artwork for music. Is there any way (external to iTunes) to embed the iTunes artwork for a movie... so that when you import the movie to iTunes the artwork is already there?
PC or Mac application would be fine.
Thanks in advance.

Nevermind!! Got it figured out!!

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ITunes movie Artwork

I'm trying to add Artwork to some of my movies in iTunes. I've done this without issue in the past, but now it just won't work. I go to Get Info/Artwork/Add, the file displays properly in the Get Info window, but then, when I click OK, the window closes, but no Artwork is added, nothing displays in CoverFlow???
Any ideas???
THX!

Having same problem. I put a post up too... so I'll monitor yours and post results if anyone responds successfully to either.
This works fine in iTunes 7.5 with either a local or external iTunes folders.
Tagging information gets updated with the file just fine.
Oddly, after you "unsuccessfully" try to add artwork to the movie, going to Frontrow gets corrupt results (read: no movies or TV shows display). However, restarting iTunes will get Frontrow working again.
Another odd issue, if you attempt to delete the iTunes Movie entry, a dialog box will ask if you want to keep or delete the file... if you tell it to delete the file, it won't.
I'm guessing Apple mucked around with the Movie/Video stuff to some degree for all this rental functionality... and it typical (we release it - but don't really test it - apple fashion), broke the Movie artwork stuff.
Nice release Apple!

ITunes Movie Artwork Issue For Videos Purchased From iTunes

There appear to be a number of different issues with iTunes and Movie Artwork but my issue seems to be a little different – and I have a workaround for it – so I thought I'd post it here in the hope that it will save someone else some time.
Config: iMac 27" / Latest Mountain Lion / Itunes 11 *in 64 bit mode*
Issue: HD movies purchased and downloaded in iTunes won't let me add artwork. I use 'get info' on the movie in question, select the artwork tab, and then drag a picture across from Google Images. It appears to work fine. I collapse the 'get info' window. To check to see if the artwark was saved, I use the 'get info' command on the same movie. The artwork is not there. It was not saved.
Additional Info:
1. I have no problem adding artwork (using the exact same process) to any movies that I've ripped from DVDs using Handbrake.
2. I discovered that the movies in question that I downloaded wouldn't play when launched from iTunes. The failure message said that playback required Quicktime. I have old and new versions of Quicktime on my Mac. Didn't seem to make sense. I researched the failure to play problem and the workaround for that also fixed my artwork problem.
Workaround:
1. Quit out of iTunes.
2. In the applications folder, find iTunes, right click the app file and select 'get info'.
3. Tick the box that says "open in 32 bit mode". Collapse the 'get info' window.
4. Open iTunes.
5. Launch the movie in question. If you get a failure message, just hit 'cancel'. The movie will open and begin playing, likely with no sound.
6. Quit the movie.
7. Select the movie in question and do 'get info' on it.
8. Select the artwork tab and drag your artwork into the blank window. Collapse the 'get info' window.
9. Repeat steps 5 through 8 for all the movies you've had trouble with.
10. Repeat steps 1 through 4, but this time untick the box that says "open in 32 bit mode".
All your artwork should be ok now, and you should be able to make changes for those files from this point on without using this workaround.
So - my question is, does anyone know why there is an issue with 32-bit vs 64-bit and if there is a way to fix it so this workaround isn't needed?
Cheers.

I am having this same problem ever since I upgraded to iTunes 7.x. When I was using 6.x, the videos displayed fine but after the upgrade, they were no longer viewable. The audio is skipping and I only receive flashing colors in the panel where the video should be displayed. I am currently using iTunes 7.5 and not only a problem with video display but also can not view album art in the Cover Flow display. Only a series of different colored squares where the album should be displayed. I have two Sony Vaios one works and one does not. The Vaio PCV-RZ34G with 1GB RAM does not work but a Vaio VGC-RB53 with 512MB works fine. I have searched for video driver updates and have not found any solution. The problem only seems to appear with any video played with Quicktime. Video played with other video applications works fine. I have just lived with no quicktime video or cover flow on the PCV-RZ43G. This has been an excellent system with the only problem being the video conflict with quicktime.

Any way to extract itunes movie artwork?

I have a number of (mostly children's) movies in my iTunes video library. Some I've downloaded from the iTunes store, and other's I've ripped and added the artwork myself. I'd like to create a collage of the artwork for my kid.
Is there any way to extract the artwork from a movie?
-Thanks

No, it's simply not possible to crack the encryption or turn it off short of entering the encryption passcode during the restore process.

Downloading iTunes movie artwork

Does iTunes allow you to download artwork for movies? I have an iTunes account and been successful with downloading artwork for my music collection.

Hi,
More or less. This means, you won't be able to download artwork for movies converted and imported by you. However, you can add automatically, movies bought from the iTunes Store.
Hope this helps!
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Can't add artwork to itunes movies

Hi,
I am using Video Converter Ultimate to load my dvd collection in iTunes movies. The converter output is .m4v file. When I add artwork to the "Artwork" tab of the Get Info box It will add but then I get a spinning colored ball and I must force quit iTunes. When I reopen the move in iTunes the movie will not play. The move is there but when playing the movie it is black (no video will play). Any suggestions?
Thank you
VPH

The Movies are M2V formated, and have AC3 Audio (Have an AC3 Plugin' and Have Apples MPEG 2 component). So please can anyone help me get Artwork to my Movie in iTunes?
Sorry to say, it is not possible in this case. The ability to add/contain graphic "artwork" in iTunes is a property of the file container here. M4V and MP4 containers, for instance, can contain one such independent graphic. On the other hand, an MOV (assume you saved your M2V/AC3 data as an MOV) file cannot. On the other hand, your MOV file can have a "poster frame." If you are not a "purist," you can get around this problem by simply adding/drag 'n dropping your graphic to an appropriate point in your MOV file (I would recommend the end of the file), setting it as your "poster frame," and saving the file. In iTunes, this "poster frame" will now show up in your "artwork" display locations. (PS -- this is on a separate track as you attempted to do. In QT Pro, pre-position playhead to end of file and add JPEG track last so its layer is above main movie layer.)

Deleting iTune Home Movie Artwork

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How does one (if we can) delete artwork associated with Home Movie in iTunes (version 12.0.1). I recently changed the artwork associate with a ripped CD but I can't seem to delete the previous artwork in iTunes 12.0.1. Windows 7
Jeff

I've always had this issue with my movie artwork. I had it attributed to the location where I store my media, which is on an external server due to space limitations. I had to first open the media in 32-bit mode, then do is just what you described, but since I upgraded to 11, it no longer works for me.
This has been a sore spot for me since I moved my iTunes media to my mac mini, I was hoping that I wouldnt need to jump through hoops to get my media to play with the upgrade. Annoying...

ITunes 11: Is there a way to see Movie artwork in list view anymore?

There used to be a small avatar of the movie artwork to the left of the title, anyone see how to do this again?
Thanks in advance!

No, there is no way to quickly preview artwork of selected songs. You have to commit with "Get Info". I agree, the lack of a preview window makes managing the library far more tedious. You can't trust the artwork in "Album" view because iTunes seems to pull that from the cloud, artwork you see may not embedded in the song.
This was the main reason I switched back to iTunes 10.7. The other reason was the inability to open multiple windows. I was trying to create a playlist of the songs on my daughters's iPod touch, and ended up having to create a screenshot of the iPod. Convoluted workarounds for tasks that used to be done in one click is called "progress".

What is happening to all the movie artwork since I downloaded iTunes 11? All the art work is missing. They down even show up on my apple TV anymore. This is frustrating !!!!!

What is happening to all the movie artwork since I downloaded iTunes 11? All the art work is missing. They down even show up on my apple TV anymore. This is frustrating !!!!!

Well, all my PAID, bought on iTunes movie poster art is now missing as well in iTunes 11.1.2. My largeish personal movie collection, wherein I hunted down the poster art and manually added it... all still work. Further, I note, in moving one of my processed films between Macs, the cover art is embedded in the H.264 movie file itself. It cannot go away. As a test of this, I transferred one of my files to a PC notebook of a friend, and even iTunes on the PC sees the cover art fine.
This tells us, code wise, movies from the iTunes Store do not have embedded, rather linked poster art assets, and thus, the link within iTunes between movie and poster art has been severed in this release. This is why an incremental update to iTunes can magically restore all the missing cover art.
A note to Apple Programmers Imagine were I Steve Jobs telling you this. (Oh, I am THAT guy who caused a rewrite of the Apple Store. Remember THAT?) Here is the permanent fix to cover art issues: In a hidden, locked (after edit) Unix file stored safely somewhere, you just have iTunes use an OUTBOARD FILE which simply contains the link data for the art. THEN, when ANY new version of iTunes comes along, it just reads that little file, and NO USER is ever left without art. The file is opened and modified as needed, and just locked up after each change.
Further, the poster art is not searchable by name on your computer if you wanted to do a manual add to permanently fix the problem.
From experience, I can tell you manually adding movie poster art, which iTunes then embeds, is painfully slow even on a fast machine. That is because a huge file must be rewritten. This is why Apple may have reticence - keeping user experience positive.
Further, Apple may be using a direct screen dump technology for the poster art, which puts a graphic onscreen without using further memory. Large collections could tank a lesser machine if this was not used.
Well, at least my movies look good in Apple TV.

Do we really need the iFlick app to insert movie artwork into iTunes library?

As I noticed (many) earlier threads on this subject, this appears to be a recurring problem in iTunes. I have read that adding artwork to movies in iTunes could be done in 2 ways:
- dragging the picture file to the preview pane of a playing movie
- right clicking to "get info" and adding the picture file in the illustration tab
Some of the tricks reported were::
- make the thumbnail of the movie poster the smallest as possible by sliding to the minimal value
- transfer all movies from the default "home movie" folder to the "films" folder
- drag the picture file onto the preview pane of a playing movie, wait until it hampers and then force-stop iTunes and restart (?duh?)...
None of these things seem to be working right now. Does it have something to do with the latest iTunes update maybe? I didn't have these problems before and all previously added movie artwork remains fine, I just can't add any new ones.
I saw a thread from Nov 2013 where someone mentioned that when using the "get info" function and adding the picture file to the illustration tab, the movie thumbnail blinks like in the way of processing, but afterwards, nothing is added. When going back to "get info", the picture file that has just been added, is not there anymore...
In the past, I also read something about file sizes of movie artworks, something about not exceeding 520px or so?
My iTunes library is on a WD NAS, I use a MacBook (2010), OSX Mavericks and iTunes 11.1.4.
I also tried a folder containing artwork files on the NAS drive itself: didn't work either.
Should the artwork source be somewhere in the iTunes folder or so?
It's quite frustrating and it shouldn't be rocket science to add an image file to a movie...

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ITunes Movies Moved to Trash, Get Back Artwork

MacBook Pro, Yosemite - Moved movies purchased in iTunes to trash in order to open space in my computer. The data disappears and the artwork disappears, however, I can of course get the movie (with artwork) back from the Purchased function in iTunes Store, and down load it. However, I want to keep ALL the artwork on my list in my iTunes account so I can remember what I own FROM MY ITUNES MOVIE LIST. In short, I do not want to go back to iTunes Store to remember what I own. I want to browse my owned movies from my iTunes account. If I find something I like, then I can down load from my iTune account, not the iTunes store. Can you help show me how to keep the artwork for trashed emails so I do not have to go back to the iTune store.

Don't empty the trash securely. That's pointless. It's only for files with sensitive data in them.

Can I change where itunes grabs artwork frame from movie

It seems that when I import a movie into itunes, the artwork for it is automatically created from a frame somewhere in the 10-15 second range.
Is this a preference and can I change it?
thanks in advance.

firstly, buy an external harddrive, or add another harddrive (if you have a laptop) for the extra space. dell has a 3tb for about $89 sata desktop harddrive i believe.. but you will need to open itunes and look under preferences or options under view menu. there is an option to change where you import your CD's and photo's but i have never seen an option to move your backups, but if it exsists it will be in with the rest of the file directory cvhanging options.

Movie artwork and movie extras disappear from iTunes. How do I fix this?

When downloading a movie from iTunes store the movie artwork image will appear as intended for the remainder of the download, but once finished the artwork disappears and does not allow you to add artwork yourself. Same happens for movies with Extras, but it is the entire extra that disappears from iTunes and the only way to get to it is actually visit the movie folder located within the iTunes folder on my computer. This is an obvious issue to the most recent iTunes update because all movies downloaded prior have the artwork still. Also, any movies added other than purchasing through iTunes allow me the abillity to add or change artwork.
I have not been able to find any post similar to this situation other the most recent update to iTunes was rushed and not properly tested as a lot of other posts suggest unique issues that are annoying.
If someone knows how to solve this issue it would be much appreciated.

Hello daddyleon75,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
iOS: Forgotten passcode or device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
Alternatively, place the device in recovery mode and restore it to erase the device:
Disconnect the USB cable from the device, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to shut down.
While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device. The device should turn on.
Continue holding the Home button until you see the Connect to iTunes screen.
iTunes will alert you that it has detected a device in recovery mode. Click OK, and then restore the device.
Have a nice day,
Mario

ITunes/AppleTV Movie artwork issue

I have noticed an issue with the Movie artwork in iTunes and on the AppleTV.
I would love to post an image. The thing I have noticed is that part of the right side of the artwork is wrapped around and displays on the left side. It is more noticeable on the AppleTV big screen.

One way I have found to remedy this situation is to view "Get Info" on a movie which is showing the wrong artwork. Then change something irrelevant like ARTIST or ALBUM. I usually just delete that field which usually shows up as "UNKNOWN". Then I hit the "OKAY" button.
Now, the key is to navigate from the movie library window to another window, like your music library window. Then when you go back to the movie library window it should be fixed.
It doesn't make sense but it's been working for me.

Grrrrr! Some iTunes Extras Artwork Missing....AGAIN!

I had to tackle this issue a couple of weeks back but it's reared its ugly head again.
Last time, all iTunes Extras movies artwork vanished. I ended up having to delete the movies and redownload the films from the 'purchased' section of iTunes. Hey-presto! Artwork back!
My problem now is that only some of the artwork for iTunes Extras has gone. I have tried redownloading films as before but the artwork is still not there. If you do the usual 'Get info' on the film and look at the artwork section it is blank. Adding an image to this seems to work until you 'ok' it. Then it doesn't show and is blank again when you go back in.
Any clues?

Anybody got the same problem like me ?
Yes, Vaio owners world-wide have been battling this problem for about 2 years. It's some bad Sony software that deliberately attacks itunes. Apparently 4 months ago, you launched the Sony media center that came pre-installed on your machine.
Upgrade the Vaio Media software, as mentioned here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2715
And here is the thread from 2 years ago where it was discover the Sony bloatware was causing it:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277

ITunes Movie Artwork - software to embed Artwork

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