QuickTime image file format

Overview

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
• Recommended file type and suffix

See Also

Media data atom types

• Sprite media
• Sprite track properties
• Sprite track media format
• Sprite media atom and data types
• Sprite button behaviors
• QT atom container description key
• Sprite media handler track properties QT atom container format
• Sprite media handler sample QT atom container formats
• Wired action grammar
• Tween media
• 3D media
• VR media
• Node parent atom
• Node location atom structure
• Custom cursor atom