Summary

AppendableVideoMaker is a custom UIImagePickerController which offers Vine-like tap-and-hold stop-start video recording functionality.

How to use it

1. Drag and drop `AppendableVideoMaker.m` and `AppendableVideoMaker.h` into your project
2. Add the import statement:

``` #import "AppendableVideoMaker.h" ```

3. Initialize AppendableVideoMaker and check if the device can record videos. If so, setup success/fail observers, then display the recorder:

``` AppendableVideoMaker videoMaker = [[AppendableVideoMaker alloc] init]; if ([videoMaker deviceCanRecordVideos]) { [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(videoMergeCompleteHandler:) name:@"AppendableVideoMaker_VideoMergeComplete" object:nil]; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(videoMergeFailedHandler:) name:@"AppendableVideoMaker_VideoMergeFailed" object:nil]; [self presentViewController:videoMaker animated:YES completion:^{}]; } ```

4. Videos are saved to the Documents directory. When you have finished creating a video, check if the video is ready and get the URL path to it.

``` if ([videoMaker videoIsReady]) { NSURL *videoURL = [videoMaker getVideoURL]; // do something with the video ... } ```

Features

• Tap and hold video recording
• Video merging

To do

• Merge already recorded videos in background whilst recording others
• Create a callback for when video is ready or fails to merge properly
• Display a label to show current length of video
• Add the ability to set a maximum video length
• Display progress bar for maximum video length
• Add a button to restart video from scratch
• Tidy up interface to look nicer

Contributors

Aleks Beer