Converting tiff images to avi in matlab

Question

I'm trying to use VideoWriter to convert large amounts of tiff images into an avi video. I'm having trouble with the for loop to convert the images into a video. Here is the code I have so far:

function tif2avi

clc; close all;
[imagelist,p]=uigetfile('*.tif','MultiSelect','on',...
     'Select LIST to plot'); pause(0.5); cd(p);
 if ~iscell(imagelist); disp('imagelist not cell'); return; end;

outputVideo = VideoWriter('0424_rat01.avi');
outputVideo.FrameRate = 16;
outputVideo.Quality = 100;
open(outputVideo);

for i=1:numel(imagelist)
    img=imread(imagelist(i));
    writeVideo(outputVideo,img);
end

Can anyone help me out? I think the problem is in my for loop.

This is the error I get when I try to run the code:

Warning: No video frames were written to this file. The file may be invalid. 
> In VideoWriter.VideoWriter>VideoWriter.close at 289
  In VideoWriter.VideoWriter>VideoWriter.delete at 238 
Error using imread>parse_inputs (line 476)
The filename or url argument must be a string.

Error in imread (line 335)
[filename, fmt_s, extraArgs] = parse_inputs(varargin{:});

Error in tif2avi (line 14)
    img=imread(imagelist(i));

Answer 1

Your imagelist is a cell array and therefore should be accessed using curly braces (instead of regular parentheses).

Replace

img = imread( imagelist(i) );

with

img = imread( imagelist{i} );

and see what happens.

PS,
It is best not to use i as a variable name in Matlab.