VideoWriter clipping my axes

I'm using the VideoWriter feature for a simple animation of motion of a 3-D surface. Running through the loop, I can see in my figure window that the plot looks great, but something in the process is removing several dozen pixels bounding the entire figure. The result is that I only see a small corner of the axes. Is getframe trimming away my edges? How can I fix it?

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

I figured out the fix:

getframe(gcf,[left bottom width height]),

using the figure position from get(gcf).

[Michael Benton]

this no longer works, has anyone found a newer solution?

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

I would guess getframe ios the culprit. Try cycling through the renderers - I would start with 'Painters'

set(gcf,'renderer','painters')

[Chad Greene]

Hi Sean,

Thanks for the suggestion--I've tried painters, zbuffer, and opengl, all with the same results. Any other ideas?

Chad

[Sean de Wolski]

I'd be curious to see a reproducible example.

[Chad Greene]

Hmm, this animation is built on some proprietary data that would mean nothing to anyone who is listening, but would be against lab policy for me to distribute. I'll see if I can work up a reproducible fake example.

[Sean de Wolski]

random values!

[Chad Greene]

The problem is evident here. The title is gone, as are bits of the x and y axes.

figure 
mov = VideoWriter('examplemovie');
mov.FrameRate = 12;
open(mov)

for n = 1:20
h=surf(peaks+sin(n))
title(['frame number ',num2str(n)])
frame = getframe;
writeVideo(mov,frame);
delete(h); 
end
close(mov);