Save a Matlab movie to an AVI file:

 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);