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<blockquote data-quote="Arador" data-source="post: 813611" data-attributes="member: 59522">Hope this helps. I had the exact same problem, and I think I have found the solution.The problem lies in a little known feature of EXIF data called EXIF thumbnails.Like me you have probably downloaded covers from the net, then cropped them manually to come up with the Folder.jpg for your movie. What I think is happening, is that the original image was created with an app that creates this EXIF thumbnail and stores it in the JPG file. Then when you crop the image and &quot;Save As&quot;, it's keeping this original thumbnail in the EXIF data unchanged. This is because most image editing apps don't change the EXIF thumbnail. I use FastStone and this doesn't.It appears that when Moving Pictures reads the JPG file, and sees this EXIF thumbnail, it uses it for it's own cover thumbnail, ignoring the modified image.What I did was download a little command line tool called Exiv2, then run the following command on the file...exiv2 -d t &lt;filename&gt;This deletes the EXIF thumbnail from the JPG. Problem fixed.There are other apps that do the same thing in a GUI, like Exifer, but I haven't found a free one yet.It's actually pretty rare to find a JPG with these thumbnails, but when you do it can be very annoying. Had me stumped for ages! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arador, post: 813611, member: 59522"] Hope this helps. I had the exact same problem, and I think I have found the solution. The problem lies in a little known feature of EXIF data called EXIF thumbnails. Like me you have probably downloaded covers from the net, then cropped them manually to come up with the Folder.jpg for your movie. What I think is happening, is that the original image was created with an app that creates this EXIF thumbnail and stores it in the JPG file. Then when you crop the image and "Save As", it's keeping this original thumbnail in the EXIF data unchanged. This is because most image editing apps don't change the EXIF thumbnail. I use FastStone and this doesn't. It appears that when Moving Pictures reads the JPG file, and sees this EXIF thumbnail, it uses it for it's own cover thumbnail, ignoring the modified image. What I did was download a little command line tool called Exiv2, then run the following command on the file... exiv2 -d t <filename> This deletes the EXIF thumbnail from the JPG. Problem fixed. There are other apps that do the same thing in a GUI, like Exifer, but I haven't found a free one yet. It's actually pretty rare to find a JPG with these thumbnails, but when you do it can be very annoying. Had me stumped for ages! :S Cheers [/QUOTE]

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