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Animate a graph and export to Powerpoint?

Animate a graph and export to Powerpoint?

Animate a graph and export to Powerpoint?

(OP)
Morning all,
I have some data that I am plotting in Matlab and I'd like to somehow create an animation and export to Powerpoint for my presentation.

In a nutshell, I have a vibration profile over a range of frequencies, and the vibrations change depending on the RPMs of the motor.

What I currently have in Matlab is a for loop from 100 to MaxRPM, where I plot the vibration levels vs. frequency, and simply use drawnow to update.  This gives me a quasi-animated plot.

Is there a way to somehow save that quasi-animation, and import somehow (as a .mpg, .avi, .qt??) to Powerpoint?

Thanks

RE: Animate a graph and export to Powerpoint?



It is very simple to make an avi file with the AVIFILE function. I use the 'Cinepak' compression option, but I frequently encounter colormap errors for very large data sets.

C

RE: Animate a graph and export to Powerpoint?

(OP)
Thanks very much cev, the Cinepak was what I was missing (I kept getting a codec error with the default compression).

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