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Stereoscopic Video - a metadata NIGHTMARE

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We start our innocent journey with the sale of my Zedd camera from Stereolabs. I was under the impression I could use it as a camera to make stereoscopic VR content, but that was not the case. Also, their software would hiccup during videogrammetry capture making some bizarre torn and overlapping hellscapes. So there I was with four hundred bucks, and the desire for a new camera. But hark! What's this? The Qoocam from Kandao, makers of other hilariously expensive camera rigs has made a small portable convertable 360/Stereoscopic camera! Sold.   I wanted to incorporate 4-channel, spatialized audio into my recordings. The desktop application that Kandao made to take the raw capture and turn it into uploadable VR content doesn't have a way to incorporate off-camera audio. So we fall back on my old friend, Sony Movie Studio 13 Platinum. (they should have stuck with the name VEGAS, it's way more catchy.) So there I was in my timeline with the new audio synced up. I want