Inject 360 Video Metadata for Youtube and Facebook

[Sudarchikov Andrey]

Hello!
i can't find solution to make possible use exiftool for inject/read 360 Video Metadata to MP4 spherical/immersive video
newbie sorry...

Any suggestions very appreciated

Thanks in advance
Andrey

i know there is the app from Yoututbe "360 Video Metadata Tool" but i want to include such feature in my appliction

here is info about 360 Video metadata
https://github.com/google/spatial-media/blob/master/docs/spherical-video-rfc.md

[Phil Harvey]

ExifTool has only limited write ability for MP4 videos.  Basically, it will only write XMP metadata to these files.

- Phil

[Sudarchikov Andrey]

Thank you for quick replay,
so, do you planed to add such feature, or not?

Andrey

PS MP4 would be ok for now

[Phil Harvey]

There are no immediate plans to add this feature.

- Phil

[andrewilley]

Has there been any further thought given to this over the past six months, especially now that 360 degree video is becoming much more common now on sites such as Facebook and YouTube?

I already use exiftool to edit the spherical metadata for my panoramic still photos, but am struggling to find anything useful to edit the metadata in MP4 video files (as referred to in the Google spec https://github.com/google/spatial-media/blob/master/docs/spherical-video-rfc.md). The latest build of exfitool reports (in verbose mode) when this metadata is present, but it does not parse it.

Hoping this might make it onto the to-do list sometime soon. Thanks.

Andre

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Andre,

I don't have any plans to add the ability to write this metadata, but send me a sample if ExifTool isn't reading everything you need and I'll add read support.  My email is philharvey66 at gmail.com.

- Phil

[andrewilley]

Thanks Phil. These are 4K video files, and even a 10 second clip would be a bit big for email, so I've put them on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f27377arst4clp4/AADWIbejxfkng_bx_6bvGblAa?dl=0

There are two copies of the same 10-second file, one saved directly from Vegas Pro and the other after injecting the basic spherical metadata via Google's small utility. However that only identifies that the video is spherical, it doesn't allow me to add other tags such as default direction, pitch, field-of-view, etc.

Not to worry too much anyway, I know your software is primarily for photographic use (and is excellent for that!) and I was just hoping that you might have this on your radar for some future update.

Andre

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Andre,

I got the samples, thanks.  I'll at least add read support for this metadata.

- Phil

[andrewilley]

Thanks for that, anything you can do would be much appreciated. Of course I know that writing a new tag format would take a lot more work and lots of testing, so I fully understand if you don't have the time to do that.

Andre

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Andre,

I should mention that the URL in the original post (and the metadata in the file you sent) is apparently now obsolete, and "is superseded by the Spherical Video V2 metadata specification".

- Phil

[andrewilley]

Of course that's the great thing about standards, there are so many to choose from...



Andre

[randyclark]

I still get limitation when uploading 360 video. I wonder what is the issue though i've been doing the instructions carefully.

PH Edit: Removed link (looks too much like spam)