Making a video of your moving graphs/charts is surprisingly easy to do in MATLAB. However most of my online searches gave me old outdated methods to do it. Here’s how to make a movie or a video in MATLAB.
I kept getting this freakin’ error using the old methods (i.e. the avifile() function):
“Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.”
So I found MATLAB recommends you use the VideoWriter() class…
http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/videowriterclass.html
They have a nice little example in the documentation, but for the impatient, here’s my quick and dirty implementation of it (with some modifications/additions of course).
%% Movie Test. %% Set up some function. % Sine between -2*pi and 2*pi. x = (10*-pi:0.1:10*pi)'; % Note the transpose. y = sin(x); fid = figure; hold on % The final plot. plot(x,y, '*'); %% Set up the movie. writerObj = VideoWriter('out.avi'); % Name it. writerObj.FrameRate = 60; % How many frames per second. open(writerObj); for i=1:size(y) % We just use pause but pretend you have some really complicated thing here... pause(0.1); figure(fId); % Makes sure you use your desired frame. plot(x(i),y(i),'or'); %if mod(i,4)==0, % Uncomment to take 1 out of every 4 frames. frame = getframe(gcf); % 'gcf' can handle if you zoom in to take a movie. writeVideo(writerObj, frame); %end end hold off close(writerObj); % Saves the movie. |
Boom. There you go. You can now make a video of your complicated function for all to see. It’s that easy.
Thanks!
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