Simple example script to save a Matlab movie to an AVI file:
Z = peaks;
surf(Z);
axis tight manual
set(gca,'nextplot','replacechildren');
v = VideoWriter('peaks.avi');
open(v);
for k = 1:20
surf(sin(2*pi*k/20)*Z,Z)
frame = getframe(gcf);
writeVideo(v,frame);
end
close(v);
