How do I capture a movie with all the subplots in a figure in MATLAB?

I have subplots in my figure and want to use the MOVIE command to make an animation playing those subplots at the same time.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

You can specify the figure handle as an input to GETFRAME to capture the entire figure including subplots in a single frame of the movie. You can then play back this movie as you would a movie with a single axes.

For example,

fig = figure('position',[100 100 850 600]);

x = 1:10;

for i = 1:10

subplot(2,1,1);

plot(x);

x = fliplr(x);

subplot(2,1,2);

plot(rand(1,10));

f(i) = getframe(fig);

end

close all

[h, w, p] = size(f(1).cdata);  % use 1st frame to get dimensions

hf = figure; 

% resize figure based on frame's w x h, and place at (150, 150)

set(hf, 'position', [150 150 w h]);

axis off

movie(hf,f);

mplay(f)

For more information on GETFRAME, consult the reference page by executing

doc getframe