Poster frame for entire movie

I have searched the manual and this forum, and I can not find an answer. I know how to set a poster frame for a specific clip, but how do I set one for the entire film? I want to upload a movie to youtube, and I want a specific image to show up when representing the movie.
thanks

Great. thank you. Yes after I posted my first video I found that it selected a poster frame of its own anyway. I just wanted to make sure there was not a black screen representing the video.
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I've got QTPro.
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1) Tells me I can't save after I hit SAVE
2) Tells me it wants to save as a .mov file... I don't WANT a .mov file.
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"This whole thing stems from me being 41 and still bowing down to my Mother's every wish and guilt trip.
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Part of your "monicker" best describes the issue.
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"This whole thing stems from me being 41 and still bowing down to my Mother's every wish and guilt trip.
Sorry to tell you so late in your life that you only have one job when it comes to moms and grand-moms. Give them what they want!
Part of your "monicker" best describes the issue.
You can edit your published pages using hundreds of tools but the are best edited with a plain text editing app like BBEdit (any plain text editor works).
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just because others said it couldn't be done.
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I accidentally hit the Set Poster Frame option on a video I bought from iTMS and want to reset it to the original. How do I do that?

There is no reset option for poster frames.
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M

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Though I don't get the preview:
http://localhostr.com/files/534186/img.jpg
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