Mastering Matplotlib 2.x

How to save animations as mp4 videos and animated GIFs

Finally, to write these animations instead of having them displayed in the Jupyter Notebook, we need to produce a video or an animated GIF that we can put into a PowerPoint presentation or on a website. To do this, we simply take the return value of the animation and use the save method. Hence, by using anim.save, we can produce sine.mp4, which will take some time to render:

# Saving the animation as a mp4 videonums = np.arange(0,10,0.1)sin, = plt.plot(nums, np.sin(nums))frames=np.arange(0,2*np.pi,0.1)def update(i):    sin.set_ydata(np.sin(nums+i))anim = FuncAnimation(plt.gcf(), update, frames=frames, interval=50)anim.save('sine.mp4')

Use the VLC player to play the video that we have produced ...