Trim video without displaying UIVideoEditorController? - ios

Question

Currently I'm working on a application which deals with the videos.
In my application user can trim the video, I have a custom control for selecting the start time and end time. I need to trim the video by these two values. I tried with UIVideoEditorController like follows.
UIVideoEditorController* videoEditor = [[[UIVideoEditorController alloc] init] autorelease];
videoEditor.delegate = self;
NSString* videoPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"test" ofType:#"MOV"];
if ( [UIVideoEditorController canEditVideoAtPath:videoPath] )
{
videoEditor.videoPath = videoPath;
[self presentModalViewController:videoEditor animated:YES];
}
else
{
NSLog( #"can't edit video at %#", videoPath );
}
But the issue is the above code will display apple's video editor control and user can do some operations on that view. I don't want to display this view, because I have already displayed the video on MPMoviePlayer and received the user input (start time and end time) for trimming the video on a custom control.
How can I trim a video without displaying UIVideoEditorController ?

Answer 1

Finally I found the solution.
We can use AVAssetExportSession for trimming video without displaying UIVideoEditorController.
My code is like:
- (void)splitVideo:(NSString *)outputURL
{
#try
{
NSString *videoBundleURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"Video_Album" ofType:#"mp4"];
AVAsset *asset = [[AVURLAsset alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:videoBundleURL] options:nil];
NSArray *compatiblePresets = [AVAssetExportSession exportPresetsCompatibleWithAsset:asset];
if ([compatiblePresets containsObject:AVAssetExportPresetLowQuality])
{
[self trimVideo:outputURL assetObject:asset];
}
videoBundleURL = nil;
[asset release];
asset = nil;
compatiblePresets = nil;
}
#catch (NSException * e)
{
NSLog(#"Exception Name:%# Reason:%#",[e name],[e reason]);
}
}
This method trims the video
- (void)trimVideo:(NSString *)outputURL assetObject:(AVAsset *)asset
{
#try
{
AVAssetExportSession *exportSession = [[AVAssetExportSession alloc]initWithAsset:asset presetName:AVAssetExportPresetLowQuality];
exportSession.outputURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:outputURL];
exportSession.outputFileType = AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie;
CMTime start = CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(splitedDetails.startTime, 1);
CMTime duration = CMTimeMakeWithSeconds((splitedDetails.stopTime - splitedDetails.startTime), 1);
CMTimeRange range = CMTimeRangeMake(start, duration);
exportSession.timeRange = range;
exportSession.outputFileType = AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie;
[self checkExportSessionStatus:exportSession];
[exportSession release];
exportSession = nil;
}
#catch (NSException * e)
{
NSLog(#"Exception Name:%# Reason:%#",[e name],[e reason]);
}
}
This method checks the status of trimming:
- (void)checkExportSessionStatus:(AVAssetExportSession *)exportSession
{
[exportSession exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler:^(void)
{
switch ([exportSession status])
{
case AVAssetExportSessionStatusCompleted:
NSLog(#"Export Completed");
break;
case AVAssetExportSessionStatusFailed:
NSLog(#"Error in exporting");
break;
default:
break;
}
}];
}
I'm calling the splitVideo method from the export button action method and passes the output URL as argument.

Answer 2

We can import AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h
-(BOOL)trimVideofile
{
float videoStartTime;//define start time of video
float videoEndTime;//define end time of video
NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:#"yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss"];
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSLibraryDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *libraryCachesDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
libraryCachesDirectory = [libraryCachesDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"Caches"];
NSString *OutputFilePath = [libraryCachesDirectory stringByAppendingFormat:#"/output_%#.mov", [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]];
NSURL *videoFileOutput = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:OutputFilePath];
NSURL *videoFileInput;//<Path of orignal Video file>
if (!videoFileInput || !videoFileOutput)
{
return NO;
}
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtURL:videoFileOutput error:NULL];
AVAsset *asset = [AVAsset assetWithURL:videoFileInput];
AVAssetExportSession *exportSession = [AVAssetExportSession exportSessionWithAsset:asset
presetName:AVAssetExportPresetLowQuality];
if (exportSession == nil)
{
return NO;
}
CMTime startTime = CMTimeMake((int)(floor(videoStartTime * 100)), 100);
CMTime stopTime = CMTimeMake((int)(ceil(videoEndTime * 100)), 100);
CMTimeRange exportTimeRange = CMTimeRangeFromTimeToTime(startTime, stopTime);
exportSession.outputURL = videoFileOutput;
exportSession.timeRange = exportTimeRange;
exportSession.outputFileType = AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie;
[exportSession exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler:^
{
if (AVAssetExportSessionStatusCompleted == exportSession.status)
{
NSLog(#"Export OK");
}
else if (AVAssetExportSessionStatusFailed == exportSession.status)
{
NSLog(#"Export failed: %#", [[exportSession error] localizedDescription]);
}
}];
return YES;
}