diff --git a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/gui/LegacyQTTools.java b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/gui/LegacyQTTools.java
index be620b37b28..3f6453e01cd 100644
--- a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/gui/LegacyQTTools.java
+++ b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/gui/LegacyQTTools.java
@@ -53,7 +53,10 @@
 
 /**
  * Utility class for working with QuickTime for Java.
+ *
+ * @Deprecated LegacyQTTools will be removed in Bio-Formats 7.0.0
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class LegacyQTTools {
 
   // -- Constants --
diff --git a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/LegacyQTReader.java b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/LegacyQTReader.java
index 406b04fba53..b0fd6b3d53a 100644
--- a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/LegacyQTReader.java
+++ b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/LegacyQTReader.java
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@
  *
  * Much of this code was based on the QuickTime Movie Opener for ImageJ
  * (available at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/movie-opener.html).
+ *
+ * @Deprecated LegacyQTReader will be removed in Bio-Formats 7.0.0
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class LegacyQTReader extends BIFormatReader {
 
   // -- Fields --
diff --git a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/NativeQTReader.java b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/NativeQTReader.java
index 59767ab81d0..7ccb0eaa5ab 100644
--- a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/NativeQTReader.java
+++ b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/in/NativeQTReader.java
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@
  * Additional video codecs will be added as time permits.
  *
  * @author Melissa Linkert melissa at glencoesoftware.com
+ *
+ * @Deprecated NativeQTReader will be unified with QTReader in Bio-Formats 7.0.0
+ * and should no longer be used
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class NativeQTReader extends FormatReader {
 
   // -- Constants --
diff --git a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/out/LegacyQTWriter.java b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/out/LegacyQTWriter.java
index 1883dd7dd33..c729fad30db 100644
--- a/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/out/LegacyQTWriter.java
+++ b/components/formats-bsd/src/loci/formats/out/LegacyQTWriter.java
@@ -52,7 +52,10 @@
  *
  * Much of this code was based on the QuickTime Movie Writer for ImageJ
  * (available at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/movie-writer.html).
+ *
+ * @Deprecated LegacyQTWriter will be removed in Bio-Formats 7.0.0
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class LegacyQTWriter extends FormatWriter {
 
   // -- Constants --