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title: QuickTime image file format
framework: QuickTime File Format
role: collectionGroup
path: quicktime-file-format/appendix_a_quicktime_image_file_format
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# QuickTime image file format

Store QuickTime-compressed still images.

## Overview

Overview important: The QuickTime Image File Format is deprecated in the QuickTime file format. The information that follows documents existing content containing QuickTime image file media and should not be used for new development. This section describes QuickTime image files, which provide a useful container for QuickTime-compressed still images. Most still image file formats define both how images should be stored and compressed. However, the QuickTime image file format is a container format, which describes a storage mechanism independent of compression. The QuickTime image file format uses the same atom-based structure as a QuickTime movie.

## Topics

### Storing image data

- [Atom types in QuickTime image files](quicktime-file-format/atom_types_in_quicktime_image_files.md)
- [Recommended file type and suffix](quicktime-file-format/recommended_file_type_and_suffix.md)

## See Also

### Media data atom types

- [Sprite media](quicktime-file-format/sprite_media.md)
- [Sprite track properties](quicktime-file-format/sprite_track_properties.md)
- [Sprite track media format](quicktime-file-format/sprite_track_media_format.md)
- [Sprite media atom and data types](quicktime-file-format/sprite_media_atom_and_data_types.md)
- [Sprite button behaviors](quicktime-file-format/sprite_button_behaviors.md)
- [QT atom container description key](quicktime-file-format/qt_atom_container_description_key.md)
- [Sprite media handler track properties QT atom container format](quicktime-file-format/sprite_media_handler_track_properties_qt_atom_container_format.md)
- [Sprite media handler sample QT atom container formats](quicktime-file-format/sprite_media_handler_sample_qt_atom_container_formats.md)
- [Wired action grammar](quicktime-file-format/wired_action_grammar.md)
- [Tween media](quicktime-file-format/tween_media.md)
- [3D media](quicktime-file-format/3d_media.md)
- [VR media](quicktime-file-format/vr_media.md)
- [Node parent atom](quicktime-file-format/node_parent_atom.md)
- [Node location atom structure](quicktime-file-format/node_location_atom_structure.md)
- [Custom cursor atom](quicktime-file-format/custom_cursor_atom.md)