Creating and Uploading a Youtube Video Directly in MATLAB

Youtube released an updated version of their Youtube Data API:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html

It now includes support for uploading new videos. In this example, we show how to create an AVI-file with MATLAB and send it straight to Youtube.

Contents

• Create an "Interesting" Picture
• Animate the Picture and Save It As a Movie
• Upload the Video to Youtube

Create an "Interesting" Picture

set(gcf,'Color','black');
step = .04;
[X,Y] = meshgrid(-10:step:10, -10:step:10);
surf(X,Y,X.*sin(Y)+Y.*cos(X)-sin(X.*Y));
shading interp
colormap(cool)
set(gca,'View',[-27 48],'Color','k','proj','p');
grid off
set(gca,'xtick',[],'ytick',[],'ztick',[])
axis off vis3d tight
l = camlight('headlight');

Animate the Picture and Save It As a Movie

mov = avifile('ripples.avi','quality',100);
for i = 1:100
    delete(l);
    l = camlight('headlight');
    camdolly(0,0,.02,'fixtarget'),
    camorbit(1,-.2)
    mov = addframe(mov,getframe(gcf));
end
mov=close(mov);

Upload the Video to Youtube

id = youtubeUpload( ...
    'ripples.avi', ...
    'X.*sin(Y)+Y.*cos(X)-sin(X.*Y)', ...
    'This is the surface X.*sin(Y)+Y.*cos(X)-sin(X.*Y), plotted and visualized with MATLAB.', ....
    'Tech', ...
    {'MATLAB','surface'} ...
    );
fprintf('After processing, the video will be available at this URL:\n    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s',id)

After processing, the video will be available at this URL:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsuzfz7_sek

Published with MATLAB® 7.6