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ndubuisiu85588546
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February 10, 2020
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Morph Cut - A Low-level exception occurred (Impossible to render or make it work)

  • February 10, 2020
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I have recently discovered morph cuts after another editor I am working on a project with added a few of them to the project (which he sent over to me to work on further).

Immediately upon linking all the media and working on the project, I was getting nearly constant repeat errors on my timeline showing the following message:

I deleted all the morph cuts and the errors went away, but I've realised that they would be a great addition to the video, and so I added them back in myself, which produced the same error of course.

 

I then had a read around a few forum posts and tried nesting the multicam sequence, before applying morph cuts again. I even tried to render the in and out points surrounding the morph cut and received this error:

 

 

The editor that sent me the project was able to use the morph cuts clearly, so what's the problem?

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    Michael Grenadier
    Legend
    August 20, 2020

    you say the clips (or at least some of them) are multicam?  if so, duplicate your sequence so you can go back to it if necessary, and flatten the multicam clips.  Just control click on the clips and you should see that option available.

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    jeffofish
    Inspiring
    September 30, 2020

    I flattened just the area of the multiclip that I needed to morph. About 3 secs.

    Works. If I need to go back, I can always drag out the clip.

     

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    ndubuisiu85588546Author
    Participant
    February 18, 2020

    Could the fact that the clips I'm using are in a multi-cam sequence be an issue with morph cutting?

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      kps3fonts
      Participant
      August 20, 2020

      @wotc… I think you're on to something. I was able to get the morph cut to function correctly, but not within a multicam sequence… which is what I was initally trying too. It sucks, but to use the transition I used the audio track to sync with the initial footage nested within the multicam sequence, then pulled those clips together, used the transition, then re-synced them within my final multicam sequence. Would be super nice if Adobe made the feature useable within a multicam sequence… but it sorta makes sense that it doesn't work how we expected it to function.

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        salvo34
        Inspiring
        February 18, 2020

        Oh.

        hmmm.

        I use cs6 and resolve 15. In resolve that thing is called 'smooth' I think. It's basically 6 frames or so.... where some head is yappin and there's a problem with mouth and sound ( like a stutter in speach ).

        I just did it once as part of a tutorial to learn resolve and it worked well, but was real short like 5 frames or less even.... I wouldn't depend on that to fix anything more than a really super short stammer or stutter.

         

        Good luck

        🙂

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        salvo34
        Inspiring
        February 18, 2020

        obviously an 'effect' like that requires writing to cache and using those cache files to make it work... so sending stuff between platforms won't have those cache files to reference... to complete the programming instructions.  You have to do your own morph cuts where you need them maybe ?

        Use what you got for the locations, but make your own based on that location ??

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        salvo34
        Inspiring
        February 18, 2020

        If I remember right, when I did it, there was lets say 2 frames.... one had mouth in focus and the other had mouth in focus... but there was some stutter in sound thing... and I used " smooth "'

        When I did that 2 frames were added ( with blurry mouth which was combination of the two frames) and it looked OK and sounded OK.

         

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        ndubuisiu85588546Author
        Participant
        February 17, 2020

        Have reduced the size of the morph cut to the shortest transition possible and it makes no difference.

          Peru Bob
          Community Expert
          Peru BobCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          February 17, 2020

          Try decreasing the length of the morph transition.

          Peru Bob
          Community Expert
          Peru BobCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          February 11, 2020

          @salvo34 

          The morph cut transition is different from morphing (like you would do in After Effects).

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          ndubuisiu85588546Author
          Participant
          February 17, 2020

          My inquiry is regarding the morph cut transition used in premiere pro. Have you any idea why it's not working for me?

           

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          salvo34
          Inspiring
          February 10, 2020

          a long time ago some MIT students put a morph program on internet for free ( forget name ) but basically you start with one image ( A ) and then put in 2nd image ( B ) and then make your choices about specific points in images that are similar.

          For example, image 1 is your face, and image 2 is your face (same frame and composition ) as a werewolf.

          The morph thing is tweening ( animation). Back then it was an output of TGA image files I think.

           

          So, you would put the image sequence into your editing program as a group of still images.

           

          ????

           

           

          R Neil Haugen
          R Neil Haugen
          Legend
          February 10, 2020

          I would close Premiere, manually delete everything in the Media Cache and Cache Database folders plus all preview files.

          Delete Media/cache files

           

          Reboot.

           

          Try again.

           

          Neil

           

          Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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          ndubuisiu85588546Author
          Participant
          February 17, 2020

          Hi Neil,

           

          Sorry for late reply, wasn't getting notifications for these replies.

           

          I've tried deleting the media and cache files, but to no avail, as I am getting the same errors when i add in morph cut transitions.

          Anything else you can think of?

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