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mbpm
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October 10, 2015
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P: Morph cut - Analyzing in Background never completes

I have a simple headshot cutting to the same head, same everything a few seconds later.

All other transitions work find. I try morph cut and see 'Analyzing in background.' Never see sign of progress - should I see it chewing through frames somehow?

I have gone to project settings. Tried both rendering settings. One thing - When I do GPU acceleration my still frames look like garbage - example:

http://www.screencast.com/t/rPiWL6yL

Software acceleration looks fine. No idea if these items are related.

Have run through all preferences. Don't see anything that might be turned off. BTW - working with MBP 15" late 2013. Latest OS.

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    Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
    Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
    Legend
    August 15, 2024

    Hi @wisaq,

    I read that you are having trouble with the morph cut effect. Please provide the community with more information so we can help. I'm sorry for the frustration. You can take steps to ensure the effect works much better, such as using a simple background, short clips, and avoiding scaling with clips vs. sequence settings (choose to nest). I hope the ideas help.

     

    See:

     

    Cheers,
    Kevin

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    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
    wisaq
    wisaq
    Participant
    August 15, 2024

    Thank you for this snippet of info. About to move to Resolve right after this current morph cut Adobe nightmare is over

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      Simon24441138undf
      Participant
      July 28, 2024

      When I use morph cut in premiere it works fine during the preview, when the timeline is red, but when I render, either a preview or exporting a file, I get a simple fade transition instead. I click "analyze background" on the morph cut, that section of the timeline goes from green to red, and the cut works properly again.

       

      I have tried rendering different formats, exporting using previews, and disabling "render at maximum quality" which seem to be the go-to's for troubleshooting morph cut problems but none of these have worked.

       

      I'm using premiere pro 2024 version 24.0.0 on a macbook m1 max running sonoma 14.2.1. I've attched a file I've made that exemplifies this problem (the png's are the media sources for the file, what I'm trying to morph between).

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      Ann Bens
      Community Expert
      Ann BensCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 28, 2024

      Morph cut is designed for fixed shots that have a single talking head and a static background (for best results)

      So I am not surprised its not working.

      Best is to use After Effects for morphing.

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      Simon24441138undf
      Participant
      July 29, 2024

      Thank you for your response. I understand what you're saying and I'm okay with a glitchy-looking morph. If you look at this very short screencapture I did doesn't it seem strange though? these two clips are exactly the same except the first one I clicked "analyze background" on the morph cut after rendering the entire sequence in to out (first clip is what I want the second is the simple fade transition I get when rendering) . I just find it weird that it's displaying the desired morph effect before I render it.

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      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
      Legend
      July 24, 2024

      The team needs more info about your system and media to assist with morph-cut issues.

       

      Feel free to create a feature request for an updated effect here.

       

      Thanks,
      Kevin

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      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
      Legend
      July 24, 2024

      Hello mbpm, and community,

      I'm Kevin from support, one of the moderators here. Thanks for the bug report.

       

      I apologize for the issues this effect sometimes causes. A product team member would be better at explaining this, but in my own experience using it, it's not a new effect and was created when certain workflows didn't exist yet. Reading through here, nesting can assist with legacy scaling issues, and transcoding can help with other unforeseen issues. The thread contains some other really great advice.

       

      I highly advise you to read the documentation:

       

      See this blog post: https://adobe.ly/3SfBDiD

      See also the user guide: https://adobe.ly/3SfBWtN

      This thread really lacks details about people's systems, media, and workflows. If you are experiencing trouble with the effect, please provide full details about your system, the media, and the workflow you use so that the team, Adobe Experts, and other community members can better assist you.

       

      I hope that a product team member can chime in with more details.

       

      Thanks,
      Kevin

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      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
      Tom_Paragon
      Tom_Paragon
      Participant
      August 7, 2026

      If users have to read several manuals and follow countless USER IDENTIFIED workarounds to use a drag and drop feature then it doesn’t work. We shouldn’t need to a PHD in a feature to trouble shoot. Absolutely sick of coming onto Adobe forums to find the on/off problem I have that takes me ages to fix (or not) has existed for 5-10 years. 10 years of peoples specs and you’re still asking for more. REMOVE THE OPTION. Why is it even there if you can’t get it to reliably work? Adobe is a swearword. The company owes its customers their subscription cost x3 for how much time is wasted trying to overcome bugs that have existed forever. Absolute shambles. Stick that in your engagement strategy.

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      angusa83618842
      angusa83618842
      Participating Frequently
      June 27, 2024

      Nest the top clips you want to apply the morph cut to, inside the nested clip apply the morph cut - this is a workaround that shouldnt need to be made - Adobe have had almost a decade to fix this and they haven't - why are we paying so much when they don't iron out bugs like this a decade later?

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        Bennett5FA1
        Participant
        June 13, 2024

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

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        Michael Grenadier
        Legend
        May 9, 2024

        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..

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          crollur
          Participant
          May 9, 2024

          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

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            Peru Bob
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            Peru BobCommunity Expert
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            April 10, 2024
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            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.

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