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Changing the Movie Metadata
Now that we have the video our goal is to get it uploaded to a private YouTube channel and watch it with the cardboard on our smartphone. However, we first have to use yet another tool to adapt some of the metadata in the movie file so that YouTube will correctly recognize it as a 360° movie. We will follow Google’s Upload 360-degree videos instructions.
- Download the 360 Video Metadata app by clicking on the "360.Video.Metadata.Tool.win.zip".
- The downloaded .zip file contains a single .exe program called "Spatial Media Metadata Injector.exe". Start this program.
- In the dialog window that opens up, click the “Open” button and then navigate to our video file. After this, the name of the file should either appear in blue at the top of the dialog window.
Credit: Google - Finally, select the "My video is spherical (360)" option at the top and then use the "Inject metadata" button to save the modified file under a new name. Let’s use “myfirstunityproject360.mp4” as the name. The resulting file is the one that we want to now upload to YouTube.