Save Video Using AVFoundation Swift

Question

Hi I followed a course by Jared Davidson to create a custom camera view and save pictures using AVFoundation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0O3ZGUS3pk

However I would

Answer 1

You can save record your video to file by creating and adding an AVCaptureMovieFileOutput to your capture session, and making your ViewController conform to the AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate.

This example records 5 seconds of video to a file called "output.mov" in the app's Documents directory.

class ViewController: UIViewController, AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate {

    var captureSession = AVCaptureSession()
    var sessionOutput = AVCaptureStillImageOutput()
    var movieOutput = AVCaptureMovieFileOutput()
    var previewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer()

    @IBOutlet var cameraView: UIView!

    override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
        self.cameraView = self.view

        let devices = AVCaptureDevice.devicesWithMediaType(AVMediaTypeVideo)
        for device in devices {
            if device.position == AVCaptureDevicePosition.Front{


                do{

                    let input = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: device as! AVCaptureDevice)

                    if captureSession.canAddInput(input){

                        captureSession.addInput(input)
                        sessionOutput.outputSettings = [AVVideoCodecKey : AVVideoCodecJPEG]

                        if captureSession.canAddOutput(sessionOutput){

                            captureSession.addOutput(sessionOutput)

                            previewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer(session: captureSession)
                            previewLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
                            previewLayer.connection.videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientation.Portrait
                            cameraView.layer.addSublayer(previewLayer)

                            previewLayer.position = CGPoint(x: self.cameraView.frame.width / 2, y: self.cameraView.frame.height / 2)
                            previewLayer.bounds = cameraView.frame


                        }

                        captureSession.addOutput(movieOutput)

                        captureSession.startRunning()

                        let paths = NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask)
                        let fileUrl = paths[0].URLByAppendingPathComponent("output.mov")
                        try? NSFileManager.defaultManager().removeItemAtURL(fileUrl)
                        movieOutput.startRecordingToOutputFileURL(fileUrl, recordingDelegate: self)

                        let delayTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(5 * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC)))
                        dispatch_after(delayTime, dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
                            print("stopping")
                            self.movieOutput.stopRecording()
                        }
                    }

                }
                catch{

                    print("Error")
                }

            }
        }

    }

    func captureOutput(captureOutput: AVCaptureFileOutput!, didFinishRecordingToOutputFileAtURL outputFileURL: NSURL!, fromConnections connections: [AnyObject]!, error: NSError!) {
        print("FINISHED \(error)")
        // save video to camera roll
        if error == nil {
            UISaveVideoAtPathToSavedPhotosAlbum(outputFileURL.path!, nil, nil, nil)
        }
    }

}