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

A track that contains information about the panoramic 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 panorama track is a track that contains information about the panoramic nodes in a scene. The media type of the panorama track is 'pano'. Each sample in a panorama track corresponds to a single panoramic node. This sample parallels the corresponding sample in the QTVR track. Panorama 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 a panorama track). The sample itself contains an atom container that includes a panorama sample atom and other optional atoms.

## Topics

### Storing panorama tracks

- [Panorama sample atom](quicktime-file-format/panorama_sample_atom.md)
- [Panorama image track](quicktime-file-format/panorama_image_track.md)
- [Cylindrical panoramas](quicktime-file-format/cylindrical_panoramas.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)