No Code! Free Spatial Video Metadata Injector for Apple Vision Pro | Standalone & DaVinci Resolve

In this tutorial, we'll introduce you to a free, standalone MV-HEVC Spatial Metadata Injector with a user-friendly graphical interface. Forget about learning command-line codes in the Mac Terminal—this tool lets you inject Apple Spatial Video Metadata into any video format, whether flat 3D spatial video, VR180, or even 3D360.

We'll also show you how to integrate this tool into the DaVinci Resolve Delivery page for a streamlined, professional workflow. Whether you're looking to convert your old 3D movie collection for Apple Vision Pro or edit your Spatial Videos for better storytelling, this tutorial has you covered.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Current Challenges in Spatial Video Production
1:27 - Spatial Metadata GUI
2:21 - Installation
3:17 - Tips on fastest MacOS workflow
3:35 - Spatial Metadata Injector Tutorial
4:46 - Tips on High-Quality Vision Pro Delivery
5:36 - How to Batch Process Spatial Videos (in FREE DaVinci Resolve)
6:21 - How to Integrate Spatial Video Injector in DaVinci Resolve Delivery Page

⬇️ Final example Spatial Video (FREE) for Apple Vision Pro viewing:

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[tarunpareek]

Hi Hugh, I would like to thank you for all your content. It’s been really helpful, I have recently experienced the immersive video experience 180 and 360 view videos and I am just so excited and want to change my career now to making these kind of video. If you could guide it would be really helpful as I want to learn to scratch

[hisbox]

Such a good way and easy explanation. It's always so good!

[michaelsiebielec]

As usual those of us without a Mac are screwed.

[MarcoComandini]

Thanks for the tutorial. Would this work on Quest 3 too? I can see the demo spatiale video in Q3 but cannot view custom/downloaded one on Q3... Could you do a tutorial ? ❤

[JM-xlij]

Another question Hugh : and thanks again for sharing all your knowledge: 
Have you ever tried the Canon RF 3.9 Dual Lens on the Canon C70 or Red Komodo to avoid the cropping effect?  
I have been waiting for an answer from Canon for over a week.

[TimMitra]

Doesn't seem to work on videos shot with a 360°/180° camera (like insta360, but not an actual insta360)

[captteemo]

Really helpful thanks a lot! :)

Btw: Have you tried the Qoocam 3 when it is how outside? Really would like to know how long it lasts without overheating...

[MrLeonRetief]

I keep getting this error on the GUI: Error: The value '64, ' is invalid for '--cdist <cdist>'
I tried various numbers and it is not working, It is always adding a comma when I exit the field.

[JM-xlij]

Thank you Hugh: I got the Spatial M GUI working. I am using the Canon R5 with the 5.2mm Dual Lens. I had the settings FishEye, SidebySide, Right, 144 and 60. But anything less than 2m from camera appears as a double image. And the Fisheye effect also spoils the vision.  
1: Is there a way of flattening the image and 
2: any suggested settings to eliminate the double vision.  
I also tried changing the Horiz Disparity to 0.3 but maybe the answer lies in some magic number for this?  
I have DaVinci - will that help in any way?
Thanks In Advance.

[jdbuch]

Your videos are always so helpful. I think I've gotten 90% of the way there with this one, but whatever I do, I can't seem to get the final output correct to upload to Youtube. I can get a 3D video, but it won't recognize it as 180. I'm using the RF-S Fisheye lens. Using spatial, I can get a spatial video, and that seems to work, but I would also like to be able to upload a 180 to Youtube. I think I'm missing the secret step in the script you're running on export. :)

[harrisonmccullough]

Thank you for an excellent GUI! Question, how can you play 3D 180 VR full screen once clip is finished. The clip opens in finder app in the small spacial window. I want to view it full screen. When playing the file in moon player and reality player the video playback skips around. Would like native playback.

[philippe]

Bonjour Hugh ! Vous êtes rempli d'énergie et de passion, ce doit être contagieux. :-) bravo!

Hello Hugh! You are filled with energy and passion, it must be contagious. :-)

[Horizen]

Hi. Im trying to convert a 2 GO PRO VR setup footage to be injected with the spatial metadata for it to be preview on the apple vision pro. however, i encountered some errors. by any chance you would know how to fix this error message when injecting the metadata Error Code - "Input video has an unspecified color transfer function."

My current workflow is
Align the timecode of both gopro footage in premier - bring it to mistika boutique to VR Stich - export out as prores LT - input to mac for MV-HEVC spatial metadata coversion.

[mustafamiracerkesim]

Hey man, greetings from Turkey. I follow you on every platform. I'm curious about this. We render CRM files from Adobe starting from EOS VR Utility and upscale high bitrate (200-250 mbps) up to Topaz AI. We take 16k scenes and encode them from TOPAZ Ai at the end. Do you think this system will contribute to us, and if so, at which stage should we use it?

Also, are you throwing the high gb file you get from CRM here or the render you get from Adobe and Resolve?

[mustafamiracerkesim]

where will we see the final output and how long do we have to wait or does it take it immediately? I haven't tried with 200 birate but unfortunately I can't see the output on my desktop.

[ThumbnailGrail]

Ooooh this is exciting. Will it work with dual GoPros edited together or do we need some actual stereo-camera metadata to use this?

[NZScenery_co_nz]

you're a god send Hugh! Do you know if there's a workaround for Intel Macs? :(

[captteemo]

I see a hugh hou video, I press like. Never got disappointed :)

Btw: Has Kandao fixed their problems (e.g. stitching) you found out in your Qoocam 3 Review?

[rubenlazaro]

Does AVP spatial video support ambisonic audio. ? I am editing a VR 180. I captured the audio with zoom H3VR. So I can choose ambiaonic, stereo, binaural as output.

[donmiller]

Still an early version. I tried converting VR180 videos rendered from my old VuzeXR to Spatial and they didn't appear or were rendered in something unreadable or something unlike other spatial videos. When I converted spatials that were already converted to FSBS from a spatial the thumbnail in Meta Quest 3 was not like the others (although the video worked fine).