How to make a zoomable movie?

Hello,

I was wondering if there's any format of a Matlab movie that is zoomable? Like a fig is zoomable. I used below to make a regular mpg, but of course that ain't it :)

    VideoWriter(moviename, 'MPEG-4');

Thanks for any help on this :)

Dave

[David Pesetsky]

No way Jose?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

The choices that I can come up with at the moment are:

• powerpoint
• SWF (Shock-Wave Flash)

SWF is considered to be fairly insecure and is being dropped by most major vendors, but it is a vector format that supports action.

PDF files are generally also vector format, but the movie capability is mostly H.264 or embedded raster images.

You might perhaps be interested in U3D, which is a technology for putting 3 dimensional interactive plots into PDF files, including support for zooming. These are not movies, but just maybe they are what you were looking for.