Morph Cut Not Working (Indefinitely Analyzing in Background)

[JonathanThiang]

Hello,

Morph cut on Premiere is not working, it analyzes in the background indefinitely. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so, how did you resolve this error?

Thanks.

J

[petergaraway]

Hey Jonathan,

A few things to try:

  1. Modifying the duration of the morph cut transition

  2. Clear your caches/preferences.

  3. Create a new project and  import the old project into that.

Let us know how that goes.

Peter Garaway

[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?

[lucyb91785867]

Aboslutely ridiculous "solution" It truly is unbelievable that morph cut is still not working.  I mean, we had put a guy on the moon with the computing power of a calculator and adobe still cant get morph cut to work in 2022.

[R Neil Haugen]

Morph cut is working fine on my rig, for what it can do. It's a rather limited effect though, and many times users expect it to do more than it can.

Neil

[David30127938buhl]

There are few things more obnoxious than someone replying "working for me" on a technical problem. How is this useful at all? 

[Jeff Bellune]

Ditto. Working great on my system. 

What exactly is going wrong when you use Morph Cut?

[Peru Bob]

It works for me, too. Keep in mind that the Morph Cut is like the Warp Stabilizer in that it can't perform miracles.  There is a limit to what it can do and results depend upon the footage used.

[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 ikn 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. 

[JonathanThiang]

Hello petergaraway

Unfortunately, I have tried all three of your suggestions, none of them work. My institution has an educational subscription, I'm asking around to see whether everyone is affected or just me. Who from Adobe should I contact for further assistance?

Jonathan

[mediacapture]

I encountered the same problem today while working with subclips. Everything was working as expected after replacing the subclip with the original media in the timeline. I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a restriction on working with subclips. 

[Kizzume]

I have the same issue, it's driving me nuts.  In the 2015 edition, after waiting a couple hours I was sometimes able to export the video 4 or 5 times and eventually by the 6th time it would work on one of the transitions, but not the rest.  I'm talking about a 15 frame transition, rather confusing as to why that should take *that* long.  I expected that the 2017 edition would have solved a lot of this, but the problem seems identical.  Very disappointing.

[Guest]

Same issue here almost a year later. What's going on, Adobe?

[blahbalhblah]

For me, morph cut still doesn't work with subclips...

My workaround is to convert each subclip back to a master clip by hitting 'F' to match frame, right clicking on the source monitor, clicking 'Edit Subclip', ticking the box that says 'Convert to Master Clip', then finally setting my in and out on the timeline and dropping my footage back in place (now as a master clip).

The morph cut feature now works, and the "analyzing in background" should disappear within a minute.

Adobe, these are basic issues, its been years on the subclip thing, please please get with it..

[Benjamin91]

I tried morph cut for the first time today. It is analyzing forever with no progress.

[juanito_alimaña]

JonathanThiang  wrote

Hello,

Morph cut on Premiere is not working, it analyzes in the background indefinitely. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so, how did you resolve this error?

Thanks.

J

Same issue even today. No solution still from Adobe??

[Trevorhamlett]

yes its really buggy,  sort it out adobe!!!! 

ive given up on it

[steban42 · Accepted solution]

I think I figured out a way to make this work - although it is a clunky approach.

1. Place cuts on both sides of the actual cut you want to morph, 8-10 frames should do.

2. Nest both of those small 8-10 frame clips

3. Apply the effect between the nested clips

4. It will usually tell you there is insufficient data, but just ignore and adjust the length of the effect

5. Adjust the morph to the number of frames you desire - 6 is usually my sweet spot

6. Render the effect to playback and see if you're happy with the length

I've found this to be the only way to keep it from analyzing for eternity. Hope it works for others!

[juanito_alimaña]

This was actually quite helpful. It did help in a number of my cuts. Really appreciate it. It is still obviously a work around for an issue that still needs to be resolved,

[Karina1990]

Thank you!! Agree with Juanito above, this was the only trick that actually got the effect to work (and sheledit's trick helped speed it up too). Hopefully Adobe sorts the morph cut issue with subclips soon, but in the meantime, merci merci merci for being a lifesaver with that trick!

[Lon Goldstein]

Thank you, steban4! This seems to be a good workaround to not have the "analyzing" banner show up in the exported clip! Sad that Adobe doesn't prioritize fixing a feature they are so proud to advertise!

[ashleytavarez]

YOU SAVED MY LIFE

[Hong_Anne]

Thanksssss it worked

[sheledit]

I found that adding edits with the razor tool a few frames before and after the transition speeds up the 'analyzing' process, especially if the two clips are particularly long. Presumably the analysis needs to encompass every frame before and after the transition, so by shortening the clips, the process is much faster. It may not apply universally, but it solved my apparently interminable analyzing problem

[juanito_alimaña]

Definitely helped a bit. I did this in addition to the recommendations by steban42 above. The combination helped quite a bit.