Setting poster frame for front row

i am in the process of putting a bunch of videos on my hard drive to use in front row. the problem i am having is that front row basically shows the 1st frame as the poster frame. so i have no clue what the episode is about.
if i set the poster frame in quicktime pro and then save it it saves it as a .mov file. my videos are .mp4. how can i change it so it saves them as .mp4 or does this really not make a difference ?

Thanks for the answer. Didn't think about that. Guess my brain is still formatted as Windows.
Though I don't get the preview:
http://localhostr.com/files/534186/img.jpg
I have checked the "Show icon preview" in the View Menu, and relaunching Finder didn't help.
Neither does removing the .DS_Store (Terminal).
Tried with a few JPG's.

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