RecordableMetalView

We use MTKView to render custom videos and animations. MTKView does not provides direct support to record video. The objective of this project is to provide easy and efficient way to directly record video + audio (Either with MIC source or Audio file).

Demo

Feature

• API to render (or draw) CIImage directly on MTKView with 30 fps.
• Record video rendered on MetalView with MIC audio source.
• Record video rendered on MetalView with Custom audio track.

Example

To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first. In this example each frame from camera is being filtered and overlayed on a static image and then redered on RecordableMetalView. OnTapped button video recording will start, onTapped on stop button video recording will stop and will save in photo library.

Requirements

• Xcode 11.
• Swift 5.
• iOS 11 or higher.

Installation

RecordableMetalView is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'RecordableMetalView'

Usage

Creating RecordableMetalView (Storyboard Implementation).

Create a MTKView from object library and set custom class of MTKView to be RecordableMetalView

Next step is to create an outlet of this view to your ViewController class by draging mouse from MTKView to ViewController + holding control key.

@IBOutlet weak var metalView: RecordableMetalView!

Render or Draw CIImage on RecordableMetalView

To render CIImage on RecordableMetalView you can directly call public func draw(ciimage: CIImage) of RecordableMetalView class.

Example.

//make sure your project image assets has image with name 'bgimg'
let image = UIImage(named: "bgimg")
let ciimage = CIImage(cgImage: (image?.cgImage)!)
...

metalView.draw(ciimage: ciimage)

Setting up RecordableMetalView callback delegate.

You need to implement RecordableMetalDelegate inorder to get callback on recording events like start and stop. for simplicity just implement RecordableMetalDelegate in your ViewController and set metalView.recordingDelegate = self.

import UIKit
import RecordableMetalView

class ViewController: UIViewController, RecordableMetalDelegate{

@IBOutlet weak var metalView: RecordableMetalView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    metalView.recordingDelegate = self
}

//MARK: RecordableMetalDelegate callback methods
func didCompleteRecording(url: URL) {
    print("Completed at \(url)")
}
func didFailRecording(error: Error) {
    print("Error: \(error)")
}

}
...

Recording with MIC Audio source.

To record your custom video rendered on RecordableMetalView with audio from MIC into MP4 file use the following call.

metalView.startVideoRecoding()

To stop recording make a call to:

metalView.stopVideoRecording()

Once you stop recording one of RecordableMetalDelegate method will invoke. didCompleteRecording(url: URL) will invoke if recording successfully finished. url will be of output file in document directory of your application.

Recording with custom audio file

To record your custom video rendered on RecordableMetalView with audio source explicit file use the following call.

metalView.startVideoRecoding(backGroundAudioUrl: AUDIO_FILE_URL)

To stop recording make a call to:

metalView.stopVideoRecording()

Once you stop recording one of RecordableMetalDelegate method will invoke. didCompleteRecording(url: URL) will invoke if recording successfully finished. url will be of output file in document directory of your application.

Thank You

A special thank for using RecordableMetalView, Your support is appreciated! if you want to make this library better. If you'd like to contribute, please feel free to create a PR.

Author

Afsar Ahamad: [email protected]

License

RecordableMetalView is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.