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title: Object tracks
framework: QuickTime File Format
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: quicktime-file-format/object_tracks
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# Object tracks

A track that contains information about the object nodes in a scene.

## Overview

Overview important: VR Media is deprecated in the QuickTime file format. The information that follows documents existing content containing VR Media and should not be used for new development. A movie’s object track is a track that contains information about the object nodes in a scene. The media type of the object track is 'obje'. Each sample in an object track corresponds to a single object node in the scene. The samples of the object track contain information describing the object images stored in the object image track. These object information samples parallel the corresponding node samples in the QTVR track and are equal in time and duration to a particular object node’s image samples in the object’s image track as well as the object node’s hot spot samples in the object’s hot spot track. Object tracks do not have a sample description (although QuickTime requires that you specify a placeholder sample description when you call AddMediaSample to add a sample to an object track). The sample itself is an atom container that contains a single object sample atom and other optional atoms.

## Topics

### Storing object tracks

- [Object sample atom](quicktime-file-format/object_sample_atom.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)