Export 360 Video from DaVinci Resolve with Insta360 and Spatial Media Metadata Injector on Mac M1

[@MillSounds]

"Everything I want to do is always a pain in the ass" 🤣you're my spirit animal today. That's some truth...

[@Nautisphere]

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[@AdeeKulkarni]

"Everything I ever want to do is a pain in the a**" Nothing in the video editing world can be more relatable! Great tutorial BTW

[@Nautisphere]

LOL. Is it wrong that I laughed reading my own quote? You don't want to know how often something like that comes out of my mouth. One other thing relatable is how difficult it is to gain traction on KZbin. At least this video always gets views. Thank you for sharing your comment and glad you thought the tutorial was valuable!

[@AdeeKulkarni]

@@Nautisphere Cannot agree more!

[@Wayne-sn6qy]

Dude you saved my life I was looking for spatial media metadata injector to work on my m1 max for almost two years!

[@Nautisphere]

Glad you finally found my video!!!! 👍🏻

[@dennisschullerjr1720]

OMG TYVM! I've been stuck on this problem for days pulling my hair out! All I had to do was unchecked the plug-in BEFORE exporting, which you covered in this video and it has solved my problem. Thank you so very much for posting this. You are right, no one is inputting this information into their videos. Thanks again, Cheers mate! 🍻

[@Nautisphere]

LOL. Great Comment. I feel your pain. I originally spent days trying to figure out how to piece two 360 videos together. When I figured it out I knew I had to make a video. One of the great things about it is discovering other people's content who use the 360 camera. Looks like I have some new content to watch via your channel instead of all the "how to make better videos" content I get suggested via KZbin. Cheers!! 🚤🍺

[@dennisschullerjr1720]

@@Nautisphere thanks for watching!

[@bstreiss]

Thank you for renewing my faith in the process. I've watched other mega-KZbinrs to it, but personally I've never been happy with the quality. So with that, I'm wondering if anyone else is having quality issues? I seem to loose a great bit of detail and clarity. Your video looks crisp and clear. Only difference I can find is that I'm on a PC and you're on a Mac.

[@Nautisphere]

Thank you for your comment. Which videos of mine are you referring to? All of my 360 videos are straight from Insta360 Studio. All my reframed videos I've used Davinci Resolve. I do reframe everything in Insta360 Studio first and import that into Davinci. I just find it easier. The only exception is my first video which is the time lapse one of the Pt Point Canal. That was in iMovie. I haven't had the opportunity to make a video that puts together multiple 360 videos yet, but maybe now I'll do that for this week. Almost all my footage on the water is shot with my Insta360 X3 camera. The only other camera I use for all my content is my 5 year old iPhone XR. Having said that, I shoot everything at 24 fps. Manual settings: ISO 100, EV 0, WB Auto, Color Vivid, Shutter Auto. Recently I've been exporting/encoding everything H.265, February 2024 and prior is all H.264.

[@jburch5752]

Thank you very, very much. I've been struggling to do this. I've followed other videos on KZbin. You method is simplest. It works. I have Davinci resolve 18.6. On a WINDOWS 10 machine. The following may or may not be tips you may want to use in Windows. The render tab looks a little different but it doesn't matter. The screen that asks if you want to change the settings to match does come up. I want to have a timeline that matches the video resolution. I check the timeline properties to make sure. If it doesn't you can create and use a new timeline ( cnt N). Uncheck use project settings, format tab, then set your custom resolution. Also, if you don't have a fast machine (and even if you do) you can setup proxies. Too many other sites made this a complicated process. I've spend a several hours trying to make this work. I can't thank you enough. I subscribed. :)

[@Nautisphere]

@jburch5752. Glad it helped you out. Thanks for the comments on DaVinci Resolve 18.6 and Windows 10. I've done similar on a videos where there is a difference between 18 and 18.5. Very helpful to continue to keep content as current as possible.

[@pbr549]

Thanks! I got this insta 360 and I am have trouble with this Davinci Program. Resetting the UI alone is a big help.

[@Nautisphere]

What a great comment!!! You're the first one to mention resetting the UI. Nothing is worse than watching a video to try and learn something, you look at your screen and say to yourself, "My screen doesn't even show that"!!!!. Glad our video helped you out.👍🏻

[@MarkCroxford]

Thank you, thank you. Yes, I was one of those searching “how to export 360 video”. So glad I found your video. New subscriber to your channel too!

[@Nautisphere]

@MarkCroxford. Thanks for your comment. I spent the better part of a day trying to figure out how to do something I felt was so simple. Was hoping I could save someone their time. Glad it helped you out. Your comment made my day!!!

[@MarkCroxford]

@@Nautisphere It's my pleasure. And here's my first attempt, from an Insta360 Sphere on a DJI Air 2S: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIrCmYWcrZySfJosi=z1mT_UYdIsLr9drG

[@Nautisphere]

@MarkCroxford. Hi Mark, Nice job. I have a DJI Mini 2 that I've flown over my marina. I was nervous the entire time it was over the water. I got my private pilot license like 25 years ago but I haven't been active in 24 years since I bought a boat. I've been meaning to get my drone license and could have probably passed it after a two hour KZbin video I watch but I want to shoot for a perfect score. Keep up the good work. I subscribed.

[@Paulthe360fan]

Wow. It's working. I downloaded Davinci Resolve and did a quick edit of putting 3 clips together using your instructions for the 360 exporting stuff in your video. I'm not a "computer guy" so it took about a hundred playbacks but I followed your instructions and after figuring out that I did not need the Mac stuff since I have a windows pc. I could watch my edited Insta 360 video on you tube through my meta 3. Now I can start learning Davinci and maybe produce some decent VR video. Owe you some beers. Thanks. You had said you had taught at a college and I think it showed in your concise lecture.

[@Nautisphere]

Thank You so much for your comment!!!! If my students were as positive as you I may have continued teaching. Reading comments like yours makes me feel like I made the right decision to venture out doing something new and help others that will truly appreciate it. I’m looking forward to seeing your work/videos. I’ll go to sleep tonight smiling. Oddly enough Wednesday night was when I had class. Thanks again!!! 🙏🏻

[@NabilTouchie]

Thank you so much! I'm really dissapointed that this cant be done from the insta360 software, you're a lifesaver as everyone else says!

[@Nautisphere]

Thanks for the compliment! Makes my day every time I receive such positive feedback. 🙂

[@GlobetrotX]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@Nautisphere]

Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for your comment, you've motivated me to finish a video I started weeks ago but haven't finished.

[@almaximus03]

Thank you!

[@Nautisphere]

You're Welcome!

[@edsonphilippe58]

Nice, I will see if I can create a davinci resolve plugin that will do it from inside the program. Hopefully davinci resolve documentation on how to create custom plugin is easy to use

[@edsonphilippe58]

I looked into it, and it seems there is no other easy way to write a plugin to do so.

[@Nautisphere]

That would have been interesting. I'm a noob at Davinci Resolve so I haven't even explored something like that. Guess my video will still be getting watch time is a plus. 🙂

[@edsonphilippe58]

@@Nautisphere Your video helped me create the latest video I have uploaded on my channel. It was very valuable and open my eyes in another universe. I looked at the source code on how to inject meta data into a mp4 and from that I kept on reading about mp4 file structure and kept digging into the source code on davici resolve plugin development. So, honestly, you video is impactful. Thanks for making it

[@Nautisphere]

OMSCS impressive!!!!!! Congratulation!!!!! I actually work for one of the companies that partnered to launch that program.

[@gabset]

GREAT!!!!!

[@Nautisphere]

Grazie!!!!

[@WildWonderfulWeekends]

Informative video and straight talk. Subscribed.

[@Nautisphere]

Thanks for the compliment. I tried to create a video that would walk someone through the whole process from beginning to end. I've watched so many videos since that just waste so much time dragging a video out to 5 minutes for something that should take 2 tops. BTW, I like your channel. Looks like I have some new videos to watch for real entertainment instead of just creating them!!!!

[@WildWonderfulWeekends]

@@Nautisphere Amen to that, there's too much fluff in most videos on KZbin. It was refreshing to see someone get to the point and to make that point clearly and honestly. Very cool. Thanks for the kind feedback. I've struggled to keep my channel to a specific niche, I tend to record whatever I enjoy doing. So far that's been outdoor activities and tech how-tos (drones and other cams). Thanks for checking it out! Happy New Year!

[@Nautisphere]

@@WildWonderfulWeekends I'm just starting out and doing the same. Trying to target boating and getting out on the water but since my background is computer science and technology (I was an adjunct professor also), sometimes I can't help but teach. LOL Cheers to a prosperous New Year!!!!

[@WildWonderfulWeekends]

@@Nautisphere You definitely have talent as a teacher, your experience shows. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

[@Evas360]

Found your video to be very helpful. Also found out by playing with Karta that you can turn it on.. then do your editing.. then like you said turn the videos back to original view.. then turn off all the Karta clips and it's good to go. Husband and I subscribed to your channel. Thank you for the information.

[@Nautisphere]

Thanks for the comment and glad it helped you out. I just checked out your channel. The VR 360 videos are not 360, yet. You have to use the Spatial Media Injector still to put the information back into the file. That's the final step. Test using the GoPro Player before you upload it to KZbin. You can download it for free and it works great.

[@WorldFun-xj9of]

Thank you keep up the great work

[@Nautisphere]

Thanks for the encouragement

[@MohdZuhair-Personal]

Thank you, life saver

[@Nautisphere]

My pleasure. This is one of the first videos I ever posted and so far the best performing one. Comments are always a great motivator. Thanks!!!!!!

[@droneruthenes]

thanks a lot for sharing this video 👏

[@Nautisphere]

Thanks for taking the time to comment. Great to know people still find it helpful.

[@FrancoisHarris]

Great video, thank you! I just got an Insta360 and wanted to know how to export 360 on my Windows 11 PC. Your solution worked great. Slight difference for me is that I just run: "python gui.py", and then choose my file. The executable gui.exe file that is made has gives errors for missing dll files, might have something to do with Windows Defender interfering. In any case, running the script manually each time is fine for me, thanks again.

[@Nautisphere]

I've noticed a tick up in views over the last two days. I'm thinking people probably received Insta360 as gifts. Glad my video was relevant for Windows 11. Initially I ran the Spatial Media Metadata Injector via CLI also. In the video I simply take it a little further to make it more "app" like.

[@underthedrone2735]

Great informative video but your recording sound setting was way too low for this video.

[@Nautisphere]

I know. What’s weird is it seemed fine initially. Anytime I record with OBS now I raise the audio levels.

[@Nautisphere]

I just viewed your channel. I just passed my Part 107 test on Friday. Got a 93. I'll be checking out some of your videos for sure.

[@underthedrone2735]

@@Nautisphere Great! It has been a journey of learning and experimentation just like yours. I'll be checking out more of your content too. These days I tend to post my content for friends and family in the 'unlisted' mode rather than for the public but still produce one for the public. The journey never ends!

[@Nautisphere]

@@underthedrone2735 Agree!!! I try to just make each video a little better and incorporate something new each time. It's a slow grind but moving forward.

[@underthedrone2735]

@@Nautisphere ICYMI, I sent an email to your website email address to talk about doing this on a Windows or Linux machine. I tried on the Windows machine but am not computer literate enough to make it work without some instruction. A link to a good source would also be great!

[@physical-folk]

That is brilliant, it worked!! Thank you!

[@Nautisphere]

Thank you for the comment. My old days of being a college professor played a role in how I planned it out. Happy it worked for you!

[@lance-phillips]

I am a DaVinci Resolve Trainer and Post Production Lecturer, so it always great to see such good tutorials. I have subscribed to your channel. 😊

[@Nautisphere]

Thank you for the support and compliment. The number of comments I've received for what is one of my first videos is really wonderful.

[@marclawrence2009]

Another dumb question. I got it to work on an older version of python installer. Have you had success with it working on Python Version 3. Thanks for your responses, you have been really helpful.

[@Nautisphere]

Yes. I’m currently using Python 3.

[@marclawrence2009]

Thanks so much. Will try and upgrade. It is nice to have someone actually reply to comments. I commend you sir!!!!!@@Nautisphere

[@Nautisphere]

@@marclawrence2009 Happy to help!!!!

[@g2nd]

Thanks!

[@Nautisphere]

Happy I could help!

[@vladislavtolmachev2767]

Thanks. Would be helpful to provide more details instructions/steps on how to install it!!! That's will help others!

[@Nautisphere]

Which application are you referring to?

[@vladislavtolmachev2767]

Spatial media. Terminal scripts. Thanks.

[@Nautisphere]

I’ll check into that and see what I can put together.

[@vladislavtolmachev2767]

Appreciate it. Thank you

[@MeruDesuJapan]

Can you make tutorials on windows

[@Nautisphere]

I don’t have a Windows machine for personal use. Is there something particularly Windows specific you are interested in? Most of the applications should function the same. The biggest difference would probably be the downloading and installation of the spatial media software. Other than that everything “should be” similar.

[@LucaAndrei]

Wait, I don't fully understand: why do you need the KartaVR plugin, if the secret is to add the 360 metadata at the end? You are even disabling the effect.

[@Nautisphere]

You are correct. You don't need the KartaVR plugin at all. Although having it to see your video in normal view is helpful if you happen to be trimming the video inside Davinci Resolve. However, most people would already have their clips trimmed to the desired length and would just drop on timeline and add transitions. So yes, don't even need it. Great observation and comment!!!!

[@stephenivey2486]

what if you don' t have the M1 chip? Im getting hung up after downloading the zip file. Not sure what to do from there.

[@Nautisphere]

@stephenivey2486 Hi Stephen. If you click on the initial link: github.com/google/spatial-media/releases Scroll down to Assets and click/download the zip file for Mac (I'm assuming you're on an older Mac). You should be able to unzip and then just run the app. That should work for you. When I download that Mac version it doesn't run for me, but as you noted, I'm running an M1 chip and hence how I had to get it working. Let me know how you make out.

[@michelepallaver]

Hi, I have Davinci Resolve Studio and I put 360 video, (I uese KvrReframe360Ultra) I can do everything but when I export it and I use "Spatial Media Metadata Injector" to convert it in 360 for youtube, the 360 video is 360 only in the front, in the back and in the bottom it makes connection like it is not a 360 video, can you tell me which import/export setting you use? THX

[@Nautisphere]

Hmmm. Double check your scaling settings. That can be found at 5:52 mark of the video. Make sure you are NOT reframing anything with the KvrReframe360Ultra plugin. Technically you don't need it. Try the following as a quick test. Go into your Insta360 app and export two short 360 videos, make them 10 seconds each. View them to make sure they are 360 video in the GoPro Player. Bring them both into Davinci Resolve, adjust the scaling, put a transition between them and then export it. Make sure on your screen it looks all warped and stretched out. Don't use the KvrReframe at all. Once exported, play it to make sure it looks weird. Then use the Spatial Media Metadata Injector and see what happens when viewed in the GoPro Player. Let me know how you make out. Good Luck!

[@michelepallaver]

@@Nautisphere Thank you ! If I use KvrReframe360Ultra only for visual purpose, fine, but I need to correct the frontal view with keyframe. Secondary if I do so I get what I need, but if I put a title, "Clear and Simple Lower Third", it looks like 360 instead of linear as I wish.

[@Nautisphere]

@@michelepallaver I started to make a video about adding text into a 360 video but I didn't post it because I didn't think it provided enough value. I'll start tooling around with some 360 videos I want to piece together and add some text into it for context. When I add text I usually stick to Text and Text+. I'll do some experiments and see what I can figure out. I'll post my findings if it's anything note worthy.

[@StrugglingTravellers]

I installed kvr 5:40 but when i tried to drag and drop it is showing warning: unknown tool found , please any solution for this, sir ?

[@Nautisphere]

I just did some quick research/reading. The only thing I can think of is a version incompatibility if you are using a newer version of Davinci Resolve. I would try uninstalling, reboot, download KVR again and install. Make sure you are downloading the correct version of KVR for your system. Mac/PC and Davinci version. I was using a Mac so double check that. Also note that you don’t even need the KVR. You’re going to disable it when you actually render your video. The KVR just helps if you don’t want to look at a 360 video stretched out when you are cutting your clips together. Good Luck. Let me know how you make out.

[@StrugglingTravellers]

@@Nautisphere actually I just wanted to merge 2-3 360 videos and export it into 1 360 video as a output. I used da Vinci 18.6 version , lower version than this is not available on site and there is only 1 file of kvr installer available on site no second version so I used that kvrreframe360ultra ! So if I only wanted merge 360 videos and export it into one 360 video is it necessary to install plugin of kvrreframe360ultra in daVinci or not ?

[@Nautisphere]

Correct. You don’t need the KVR plugin at all. I only show/use it so the screen isn’t warped when clipping the videos together. If you already have your 360 videos cut to length, just drop them on the timeline and add your transitions. Then just export the video.

[@StrugglingTravellers]

@@Nautisphere ok thanks 👍 I'll try that !

[@StrugglingTravellers]

Thanks a lot sir finally it's done successfully ! Thank you very much ❤​@@Nautisphere

[@1stAmendmentDrone]

the 360 files do not drop in davinchi

[@Nautisphere]

Straight from 360 camera they don’t. You need to export from Insta360 studio as a 360 video first, then you can bring it into Davinci Resolve.

[@1stAmendmentDrone]

@@Nautisphere awesome. Thx.

[@marclawrence2009]

been trying to find the directory on my Mac do check python. How do you get to the directory?

[@Nautisphere]

Hi Marc. I'm assuming you're working via terminal prompt and want to check if python is installed. Mine is in a subdirectory of /opt At Prompt Type: find /opt -name "python" -print You should find it in /opt/local/bin You can also search for pyinstaller: find /opt -name "pyinstaller" -print You can then type: echo $path Scan through the list of directories and make sure the directories for python and pyinstaller are listed in the path that was returned via the echo $path command. To get to that directory use the 'cd' command. Example: cd /opt/local/bin Cheers and good luck.

[@kmier2000]

so dumb quesiton: what happens when you don't inject the metadata? stays stupid/spherical but in a rectangular box?

[@Nautisphere]

Not a dumb question. If you don't inject the metadata it will look like a big rectangle (like you stated) with all the content shown on the screen. Basically similar to taking a globe, making a single cut from top to bottom, and then laying it out flat.