P: Morph cut - Analyzing in Background never completes

It's been 6 years and this is still the only workaround that worked. Thank you!

this is an enormous thread and I don't have the time to review the entire conversation, but...  I'd suggest transcoding your source clips for the morph cut to an all iframe format like the appropriate flavor of prores rather if the original clips are an mpeg format like mp4 where each frame is not discreet...  Happy to go into more detail of my thinking on this if anyone's interested.  I almost always transcode my source material to prores or at least create prores proxies...  and never see this problem..

well i'm using premiere pro 2024 [version 203.0 (build 59)] and still have to uses every tsingle tip in this thread to get it to work. and sometimes it still doesn't and i have to use some other meathod of transition. so it's clearlyt still buggy and not fixed

I sort of dread updating my Premiere, but I did... it sort of did it without my permission.

By @Tom34127479bu9o 

You can turn that off in the Creative Cloud app.

I just read one comment in here that said it might be and Issue with file size and/or being a render issue sice the morph cut was being applied to the 'same clip' (thats the point - haha)....BUT they did suggest, essntially doing a render and replace of the clips on the timline and then re-aplying the morph cut. Which is a solid idea, however, I was having the same issues as you, I was about to 'render and replace' but I had to FLATTEN the clips cause they were in a multi-cam sequence!!! I flattend, applied the morph cut and it worked as we've all come to expect....so...yeah....doesnt seem to work on multi-cam/nested clips.  -Peace

Same here.  Issues seem to have resolved for me with the latest updates. I don't have to nest sequences anymore with the latest versions.  I know it says "analyzing in background" but I now always wait with the playhead over the morph until its done analyzing, because I don't quite trust it yet. 😄   But it only takes like 30 seconds to a minute. 

The sequence needs to exactly match the source video, otherwise it might cause problems. It can be pretty annoying but it works - at least for me.

It's not working  (just analyses in background forever) as of Match 1st 2024- so that's at least eight years now. I don't mind things not working actually - it's complex, but for Christ's sake tell us it doesn't work and not to bother with it and then we won't waste time on it ever. 

Not an expert here, but after many failed attempts, I ran the clip through Handbrake---changing the encoding to H.264 and setting the FPS to match my sequence (24). Working now.

NOTE: For really stubborn clips, I play the clip in a separate player and record that playback using Windows video capture (Win-Alt-R). That has always worked...assuming I can accept the quality of the capture.

Morph cut is great when it works.  More than half the times I try to use it the program fails to analyze.