Thumbnails of AVI movies in Finder

What can I do to get the first frame of AVI movies displayed as thumbnails?
(instead of these unpredictable thumbnails)
I hope there is an easy way because I have lots of clips...
Thanks!!

coxorange wrote:
Thanks. I only use QT and I don't want to get and install other players.
(I try to install as little software as possible!)
Is there another way to change the thumbnail to the first frame?
I have several movies that are associated with QT as the default and they show a first-frame icon.
One is an mp4, another is a wmv, another an m4v, and yet another is an avi. All have first-frame icons are are asscociated with QT, so I don't understand the problem you are having.
When you right-click your avi file, and select "Open With" is QT listed as the default?
If not, then do what I originally wrote, selecting Other and then selecting QT and checking "Always open with" and see what happens. If "Always open with" is not checked then the icon may not associate properly with the app.
Again, all my QT movies have the first-frame icon.
What icon do yours have?

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Patrick Brennan1 wrote:
Scott,
Thanks but I got that far already setting my movie folder to show icon previews which it does.
But my problem is all the .mpeg movies DO show a picture on the icon, BUT only that extension shows an actual picture, where all my .avi movies only show a blank white icon with no picture from movie.
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Interestingly after I reassigned QT to the avi I had changed to VLC, the VLC icon remains. Maybe a reboot will change it back?
Anyway, I like the first frame, usually the title to be the icon, but if you use VLC as the default you can change it to the cone.

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I'm using a Canon SD550, which makes AVI movies. I've got a couple of such movies where the camera was held vertically rather than horizontally. They don't display correctly in iPhoto or Quicktime.
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Steve,
I haven't tried rotating with QT Pro, but I do have a suggestion for you. My Canon came with ImageBrowser. I don't normally use it because iPhoto is superior. However, if you select a video clip in IB you can open it inside the Video Edit task. It has several functions to edit the clip, including actually rotating it. (By actually I mean that it's not just a display setting.) If you have this app, you could rotate the video clip before importing into iPhoto. I would expect that iPhoto would have no problem creating the poster frame and thumbnail correctly. I have used rotated clips in iMovie with no problems.
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To all my Mac friends
I have an external hard drive with 3T of movies but i tried to play them i always get this message
:: To see if additional software is available that will enable Quick Time player to open the movie click for more:::
The listr of the movie is showing AVI Movies so i can not open any movie so pleaset help me help me find a way to transfer or to download any program such as VLC in order for me to watch that many movies and i thank you so much for your help and attention

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