AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer: taking a snapshot

Question

I\'m trying to emulate the animation seen in the default camera app, where a snapshot of the cameras viewfinder is animated into the corner of the apps display.

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Answer 1

there are 2 ways to grab frames of the preview.. AVCaptureVideoDataOutput & AVCaptureStillImageOutput :)

is your capture session is setup to grab video frames, then make your layer with the cgimage from a chosen frame. if it's setup for stills, wait until getting your still image and make your layer from a scaled down version of that cgimage. if you don't have an output on your session yet, you'll have to add one i think.