The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition

Recipe: Picking and Editing Video

You can use the image picker class to select videos as well as images, as demonstrated in Recipe 8-6. All it takes is a little editing of the media types property. Set the picker source type as normal, to either the photo library or the saved photos album, but restrict the media types property. The following snippet shows how to set the media types to request a picker that presents video assets only:

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picker.sourceType =  UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary; picker.mediaTypes = @[(NSString *)kUTTypeMovie];

Once the user selects a video, Recipe 8-6 enters edit mode. Always check that the video asset can be modified. Call the UIVideoEditorController class method canEditVideoAtPath: ...