Hi Erik,
due to the amount of features available in PIVlab, the whole data structure is relatively complex. Exporting to the Matlab workspace does only save the vectors and not all the other variables that are needed to run the GUI. Therefore it will not be simple to reimport the data back to PIVlab (at least I do not remember any easy way to do it)...
Sorry!
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