@sam moor: When you read the cell2mat documentation, you will learn that the input must be a cell array (as its name also implies). When you take the cell array out and use cell indexing like this out{8,1}) you are accessing whatever is inside that cell, which is clearly not a cell array itself. So you are passing something that is not a cell array to cell2mat. This will be an error. What do you expect to happen?
It seems that your usage of cell2mat is would be improved by reading the documentation, and revising how cell array indexing works:
