Video recording method of mobile terminal and the mobile terminal

The invention discloses a video recording method of a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The method comprises following steps of detecting a first operation event input by a user in a dim screen state; matching the first operation event with a preset first triggering condition; keeping the dim screen state if the matching is successful; starting a camera; starting video recording; detecting a second operation event input by the user in the video recording process; matching the second operation event with a preset second triggering condition; keeping the dim screen state if the matching is successful; finishing; and storing the video recorded at this time. According to the method and the terminal, starting and finishing of the video recording are controlled through the preset operations on the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal is in the dim screen state in the whole process; the attention of a video recording object will not be drawn; and the rapid and simple video recording process can be carried out