Thumbnails of swf and qt files

Anyone know of a way to make swf and qt files display in Bridge (CS3, CS4?) with a thumbnail of the first frame, instead of the generic icon for those file types?
Thanks.
JdF

Hello Jesse,
Thank you for using Bridge.
It is a known limitation of Bridge that Bridge cannot thumbnail SWF and some of QT files. However, nost MOV files should be thumbnailed.
Thank you for your understanding,
Goichi Kitazume
Adobe Bridge Quality Engineer

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