P: Morph cut - Analyzing in Background never completes

[mbpm]

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.

[Professor Panda]

I've added my vote to the suggestions, but it's more than just a shortcoming — Morph Cut is essentially useless. It remains on "Analyze Background" indefinitely and I can't even force render the effects. It's just a few frames!

[sebrame]

Just began having this issue myself. It's happening on Cineform clips that were transcoded from AVCHD camera files. However, if I apply Morph Cut to the original camera files, it works normally. At first i thought that maybe it was simply taking longer on the Cineform clips, since their data rate is much higher, but a 10 sec Morph Cut which takes only a minute or two to Analyze on the AVCHD files hadn't finished Analyzing after 30 minutes.

[Markus Scheibenbauer]

This is so frustrating. The problem seems to persist, even after several updates. Workarounds like nesting, trimming and joggling everything around are ok for the moment... but in the end workarounds are NOT the solution. Is petergaraway Adobe actually adressing this problem?

[Sarah E]

The "correct" fix didn't work for my project. Converting the subclip into a masterclip suggested by blahbalhblah above worked. I have a newer version of Premiere, so the steps are different:

1. Right click on the subclip in the bin to get to the Edit Subclip option and change the clip to a master clip
2. Right click on the clip in the timeline and choose Replace with Clip > From Bin
3. After a few minutes, the effect will render and analyzing in the background will disappear. The wait time will apply again if you make any changes to the morph cut after that.

[laura_cmg]

Thank you for this! It definitely helped. I also realized you can do the same thing with "render and replace" on just one of the clips 🙂

[ShawnTierney]

Agreed!
I too just ran into this issue while reviewing my latest export 😞
It's obvious that rendered video should not include messages that are intended for the editor, so hopefully the Premiere Pro team can fix this bug.

PS - Prior to moving to Premeire Pro I used Premier Elements for 7 years and never had this problem, so hopefully Premiere folks can fix this issue with a warning or notice that it's still processing transitions in the background? 

[Ann Bens]

You did not have the issue before as Elements does not have morph cut.

Best practice to check timeline before export.

As for warp stabilizer you get a warning on export.

[hustlenhardwork0101]

CUT RIGHT BEFORE THE MORPH ON FIRST CLIP THEN RIGHT AFTER MORPH SECOND CLIP WORKED FOR ME 4K FOOTAGE

[mehdgreen]

Hi,

I think I may have found the issue - hopefully, this will be the same for others.

I found that the reason the effect wouldn't analyze when using Sub clips was because I still had In/Out markers in place on the original clip. I'm assuming this restricted access to the frames it needed to analyse. 

Once I remove the In/Out markers on the original footage the subclips were analysed and the effect worked.

Thanks

[Hong_Anne]

Thanksssss it worked

[AndrewTheGreat]

I suggest Adobe get this plugin out of Premiere pro and give it to a team who can make it work since I've had problems with Morph cut for 5-7 years already and Adobe cannot make it work right. Ok, it's 2022.3.1 and my morph cut gets stuck analysing a short clip cut from both sides for ... ever.  I don't know what to say. I'm speechless... Adobe?

[Jack Stuart]

I just exported a rendered video and the finished product came out with the words and stripes "Analyzing in background" instead of a morph cut on the final video.  This feature is obviously broken.  I have the third best consumer video card that can be had (RTX 3080) so that's not an issue.

[DocHallaq]

Hi All - Thanks for your input on this. I'm a long time Premiere user, first time trying Morph Cut. I used it on my first interview - all went well and looked great. Trying on a second interview, I can't get through the "Analyzing in Background" flag. My interviews are shot in 4K, edited in 1080p, static plain background. I tried the Render and Replace option which turned all transistions into cross-dissolves. That didn't look quite right, so I went back to replace all with Morph Cut. The first two cuts on the timeline look fine, but all the rest continue to "Analyize in the Background." The edited interview is less than 5 minutes. Morph Cuts are set to 10 frames. As I move through each transition frame-by-frame, the orange banner only shows up on two frames per transition. 

[vdruts]

2023. Not working.... Analyzes indefinitely.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Morph cut is buggy, erratic, unstable. When it works it is amazing but most of the time the "Analyzing in background" bar keeps appearing even after rending, but sometimes after multiple tries it disappears. The message bar also appears frequently in exported media. Some have posted that this doesn't happen if you export from Premiere directly, But I've had it happen both ways.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Sometimes it renders successfuly, then it shows up later in the same editing session mysteriously with the "Analyzing in background" again.

[andrewh39423099]

Ugh, yes. Morph cut is still broken and has been for years. Fix it, Adobe!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

morph cut now showing "media pending" message on 1-2 frames every time in newest update (13.0.1)

[AnthemMultimedia]

Still broken!! Please fix!! Was stuck with "analyzing in background" forever and gave up and now it's "media pending!"

[Tobshowhost]

Had to do a morphcut in cc18 and it worked well. got this shots back from grading (half a year passed though...) and updated to cc19 and need to do the morph cut again, but it isn't working anymore as supposed! **** - please fix it fast!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Please fix the morph cut feature. When it works it's a lifesaver. Unfortunately, it often gives an error message saying "error reading node properly." I have been having this problem fairly often for as long as morph cut has been available. I have tried several of the workarounds but to no avail. Also, your phone support representatives have said that this is a high priority to fix. I just downloaded version 13.1.0 (build 193) and it's still a problem.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Great (not). You offer all kinds of useless bells and whistles but can't fix the "Analyzing in background" banner appearing after render. PP 13.1

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This doesn't really work ... I have an i9 128 Gig RAM ... etc etc .. it still doesnt work ..

[Wedelski]

Yeahhhhhh Morph Cut doesn't want to render in CC2019 anymore for me. It crashes my PP build everytime I try to render. And because 2019 is actually terrible, I'm forced to also rebuild my Documents/Adobe/PremierePro folder everytime there's any crash in CC2019.

I've been compelled to take my clips I want morphed and copy them into a fresh sequence, export an XML, open CC2018, apply the morph, export a Quicktime from CC2018 and import that into CC2019.

Coole workflow, thanks Adobe, my time is not precious at all.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

There are also issues with it reverting to full res media instead of proxies on the two effected clips, I've found