Movie Artwork "Get Info"

MOVIE ARTWORK
I have copied a number of movies to my iPad2 for my grand daughter to watch. I downloaded the movie posters for each movie, shrunk them to about 26kb jpegs and then added them to the Movie on the get info screen. Problem is about 1/2 of the movies will not take the artwork, the other 1/2 did, what is going on?

When you add a movie to iTunes you have to make sure it makes a copy of the file in the iTunes Media folder.  Otherwise, you can't edit any of the information on the movie or video.
In iTunes 12, go to Edit-->Preferences
In Preferences, go to Advanced and make sure the "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library".
Unfortunately, you will now have to re-import the movie files into iTunes using "Add File To Library..." Once imported, the movie will sometimes appear under "Home Movies" instead of "Movies" but if you right click on the movie file it will list a menu item called "Get Info" where you can change the "Options" to "Movie". You should also be able to click the "Add Artwork" button. 
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