Jpeg thumbnails from mov

has anyone found a way to create jpg thumbnails from movie files..... Basically what Motion does in the library preview, but in an external way so I can save them as PDF's for reference.
"quad" G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

You might try throwing them all in a QuickTime player, exporting to a thumbnail size, then taking that and saving an image sequence. Though I guess you'd lose file names then...
I guess the best way to do it would be to set up an action in PhotoShop(something that resizes to a specified resolution), save it as a droplet, then select all your files and drag them to that droplet. I don't have specifics on the procedure, but if you google Photoshop action droplet I'm sure you'll find a tutorial online somewhere.
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    public static void main(String args[]) {
         if (args.length == 0)
         prUsage();
         // Parse the arguments.
         int i = 0;
         int width = -1, height = -1, frameRate = 1;
         Vector inputFiles = new Vector();
         String outputURL = null;
         while (i < args.length) {
         if (args.equals("-w")) {
              i++;
              if (i >= args.length)
              prUsage();
              width = new Integer(args[i]).intValue();
         } else if (args[i].equals("-h")) {
              i++;
              if (i >= args.length)
              prUsage();
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              i++;
              if (i >= args.length)
              prUsage();
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