Objective-C How To Add Overlay To Video Using AVFoundation?

Question

I've been trying to add overlay to a video for days now, and I just can't figure out why when I save, the video gets rotated ninety degrees to the left. I've been trying to fix it but this is as close to it as I have gotten. At the moment the session preset is at AVCaptureSessionPreset1920x1080. When I rotate the video it shrinks, and I have to translate it to the center. I can't manage to get the video to be full screen after I rotate it. Please someone help I really really need it. I'll do anything!

AVURLAsset *videoAsset = [[AVURLAsset alloc] initWithURL:self.video options:nil];
    AVMutableComposition *mixComposition = [AVMutableComposition composition];

    AVMutableCompositionTrack *compositionVideoTrack = [mixComposition addMutableTrackWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo preferredTrackID:kCMPersistentTrackID_Invalid];
    AVAssetTrack *clipVideoTrack = [[videoAsset tracksWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] lastObject];
    [compositionVideoTrack insertTimeRange:CMTimeRangeMake(kCMTimeZero, videoAsset.duration)
                                   ofTrack:clipVideoTrack
                                    atTime:kCMTimeZero
                                     error:nil];

    [compositionVideoTrack setPreferredTransform:[[[videoAsset tracksWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] objectAtIndex:0] preferredTransform]];

    CGSize videoSize = [clipVideoTrack naturalSize];
    NSLog(@"WIDTH: %f HEIGHT: %f", clipVideoTrack.naturalSize.width, clipVideoTrack.naturalSize.height);
    CALayer *parentLayer = [CALayer layer];
    CALayer *videoLayer = [CALayer layer];
    videoLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, videoSize.width, videoSize.height);
    parentLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, videoSize.width, 5000);
    [parentLayer addSublayer:videoLayer];
    [parentLayer addSublayer:_text.layer];

    AVMutableVideoComposition* videoComp = [AVMutableVideoComposition videoComposition];
    videoComp.renderSize = [clipVideoTrack naturalSize];
    videoComp.frameDuration = CMTimeMake(1, 30);
    videoComp.animationTool = [AVVideoCompositionCoreAnimationTool videoCompositionCoreAnimationToolWithPostProcessingAsVideoLayer:videoLayer inLayer:parentLayer];

    AVMutableVideoCompositionInstruction *instruction = [AVMutableVideoCompositionInstruction videoCompositionInstruction];

    instruction.timeRange = CMTimeRangeMake(kCMTimeZero, mixComposition.duration);
    AVAssetTrack *videoTrack = [[mixComposition tracksWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] objectAtIndex:0];
    AVMutableVideoCompositionLayerInstruction *layerInstruction = [AVMutableVideoCompositionLayerInstruction videoCompositionLayerInstructionWithAssetTrack:videoTrack];

    CGAffineTransform t1 = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(1500, 0);
    CGAffineTransform t2 = CGAffineTransformRotate(t1, M_PI_2);

    CGAffineTransform finalTransform = t2;
    [layerInstruction setTransform:finalTransform atTime:kCMTimeZero];

    instruction.layerInstructions = [NSArray arrayWithObject:layerInstruction];
    videoComp.instructions = [NSArray arrayWithObject:instruction];

    AVAssetExportSession *assetExport = [[AVAssetExportSession alloc] initWithAsset:mixComposition presetName:AVAssetExportPresetMediumQuality];
    assetExport.videoComposition = videoComp;
    NSString *videoName = @"output.mov";

    NSString *exportPath = [NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingString:videoName];
    NSURL *exportURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:exportPath];

    if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:exportPath])
        [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtPath:exportPath error:nil];

    assetExport.outputFileType = AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie;
    assetExport.outputURL = exportURL;
    assetExport.shouldOptimizeForNetworkUse = YES;

    [assetExport exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler:^(void){
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            [self exportDidFinish:assetExport];
        });
    }];

Answer 1

Use the sample code from here http://www.raywenderlich.com/30200/avfoundation-tutorial-adding-overlays-and-animations-to-videos

It does the video orientation calculation and feeds this orientation info into the AVMutableVideoCompositionLayerInstruction which should produce the desired output.