Movie and TV Show Artwork with .mov as opposed to h.264 files

I am in the process of transfering my DVD collection to digital media, and I've been using handbrake to make h.264 files. This is all fine and dandy, and iTunes 7 indexes them perfectly and lets me assign artwork to the shows and movies I add to the libary. The only problem is when a movie is split between two discs, say like the Lord of the Rings movies, I have to stitch the two h.264 files together using quicktime and save as a .mov file, or re-encode the full file into h.264 which is a waste of time and degrades the quality. The reason I HAVE to have it in h.264 is because for some reason itunes does not let you assign artwork to a .mov file. It defaults to the first frame of the movie and doesn't let you change it. Is there a way around this, or are these .mov files doomed to exist in coverflow without artwork.
Any advice would be handy. Thanks.
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I have a similar dilemma, where iTunes (or any other tool) will not allow me to add artwork to a MOV file. This is understandable (kind of), as the "poster frame" is not a discrete piece of artwork. But boy is it frustrating.
The reason I'd love to know how to add artwork is this: I can use ChapterTool to add chapters to the audio track of a movie, then paste in the video track and save it as a QuickTime Movie. Time intensive, but it's actually pretty cool to have the DVD chapters with the movie.
I had considered adding the artwork as a disabled layer and setting that as the poster frame, but iTunes feels compelled to disobey transparency and format it to the proportions of the movie. I'll keep at it, but if anyone has any tips, pass them along. (For me, an alternative would be a way to chapter an MP4 video vs. a QuickTime Movie.)

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