OT-creating thumbnails for Finder for QT movies?

I have thumbnails in FCP for multiple clips, but I need to close FCP and load Motion to do a
montage intro.
There are 230 QT clips, and I can't keep both apps open as I only have 2Gig of Ram.

Finder by default icon display just shows the QT logo.

Is there a way to get thumbnails for this?

OSX 4.11
G5 2G Ram
Motion 3
FCP 6.02

The easiest solution is to upgrade your OS to Leopard 10.5.x or higher. The Finder in that OS shows thumbnails (playable even) in column view, just like it does for stills.

Probably better to dump the G5 entirely,
I was extremley dissappointed with only 2G of Ram
and a 9800 card as opposed to a 6800 card.
But this system was bought turnkey back in 04'.
Rule of thumb is 2G per processor.

Scott Taylor Wrote:
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> The easiest solution is to upgrade your OS to
> Leopard 10.5.x or higher. The Finder in that OS
> shows thumbnails (playable even) in column view,
> just like it does for stills.

As I have discovered in recent days, 10.4 (both client and server) and PowerPC are both effectively end-of-lifed. Just as an example: Xsan 2.1 works on PowerPC, but Xsan 2.2 does not. Xsan 2.1 clients can join SANs managed by Xsan 2.2 controllers, if you set things up correctly. But you cannot buy Xsan 2.1. You can only buy Xsan 2.2. So if you have a mixed-architecture SAN running on Xsan 1.4 and you want to upgrade to Xsan 2, you're going to have to unplug your G5 systems.

The question isn't whether to upgrade from PowerPC to Intel, or to 10.5 or 10.6 The question isn't even when. The question is "why not right now?"

And when you do upgrade to 10.5 / 10.6, you can use the Set Poster Frame function in QuickTime Player to set a specific frame as the thumbnail.

My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools - Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools - Edit QuickTime chapters and metadata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools...

Not in between three projects on the drive!

Jeff Harrell Wrote:
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> The question isn't whether to upgrade from PowerPC
> to Intel, or to 10.5 or 10.6 The question isn't
> even when. The question is "why not right now?"

I didn't say the question couldn't have a valid answer. I just said that's the question. If you're not upgrading to a non-totally-obsolete system right this very minute, there needs to be a reason for it.