A method and apparatus are disclosed and described for providing Offset Metadata insertion in multi-view coded video. The apparatus includes an offset metadata inserter (235) for receiving a first bitstream compressed using a single-view based two-dimensional video compression scheme, a second bitstream compressed using a multi-view based two-dimensional video compression scheme, and disparity information, and outputting a third bitstream based on the first bitstream, the second bitstream, and the disparity information. Each of the first bitstream, the second bitstream, and the disparity information correspond to a same video sequence. The third bitstream includes group of pictures information extracted from the first bitstream and underlying content of the video sequence at least some of which is extracted from the second bitstream. The third bitstream has embedded therein one or more messages that specify the disparity information for use in overlaying information on the underlying content of the video sequence during a subsequent displaying of the overlaying information on the underlying content.