frameworkintermediate

AVFoundation

2+ years experience

1 projects

Confidence: 6/10

Proficiency Levelintermediate

Overview

Apple's framework for working with time-based audiovisual media on iOS and macOS. AVFoundation provides comprehensive APIs for capturing, editing, processing, and playing audio and video content.

Skill Evolution

Feb 2019

First Exposure

Media processing for enterprise platform at Axle Media

Feb 2019

Professional Use

Metadata extraction and video analysis for media management system

Technical Depth

Core Concepts

• AVAsset - Representation of audiovisual media
• AVPlayer - Media playback engine
• AVAssetReader/Writer - Reading and writing media samples
• Metadata handling - Extracting and writing media metadata

Advanced Topics

• Real-time video processing
• Custom video compositions
• Media format conversion
• Integration with VideoToolbox for hardware acceleration

Tools & Ecosystem

AVFoundation frameworkCore Media - Low-level media typesVideoToolbox - Hardware-accelerated encoding/decodingCore Audio - Audio processing

Evidence & Achievements

Key Achievements

✓Implemented metadata extraction for enterprise media catalog
✓Integrated with FFMPEG for comprehensive format support

Metrics

📊 15-20x performance improvement in media processing

Projects Using This Skill

AX1 Media Management Platformprofessional

Enterprise media management platform rebuilt from web to native macOS with 15-20x performance gains serving NBC, CNN, BBC

Interview Talking Points

💬Experience with Apple's media processing frameworks
💬Integration of native and third-party media libraries
💬Professional video format handling