Dragging an Image to the timeline and selecting Cancel in the popup crashes Windows

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  • What is your operating system?

    • Windows 11

  • What is your Shotcut version (see Help > About Shotcut)?

    • 25.10.31

  • Can you repeat the problem? If so, what are the steps?

    • Yes I can repeat it.
  1. Open Shotcut
  2. Select an image file
    1. I selected a file called “Glenn Close.avif” (I’ve used this file in one other project before so I know it works. To answer your other question, I use it for a meme)
    2. When it prompts for the duration, immediately select “Cancel”
      1. image
        image208×138 2.86 KB
    3. Afterwards, my computer locks up and I can’t even Ctrl+Shift+Escape, I have to hard press the power button on my machine

Here’s the portion in the logs where I saved my project and then dragged the image over and selected “Cancel”. There are no more logs after the last line, so maybe some kind of loop that got stuck?

[Info ] MainWindow::showStatusMessage “Saved //pathToMyFile/MyStorageFolder/Storage/TheVideoIMade.mlt”

[Debug ] Database::deleteOldThumbnails::lambda removing 1

[Info ] [mlt_producer 0x272b69df9c0] “//pathToMyFile/MyStorageFolder/Storage/Images/Glenn Close.avif” QImage retry: 3 - Unsupported image format

[Info ] [mlt_producer 0x272b69df9c0] “//pathToMyFile/MyStorageFolder/Storage/Images/Glenn Close.avif” QImage fail: 3 - Unsupported image format

[Debug ] Timeline::OverwriteCommand::redo trackIndex 0 position 88791

[Debug ] <> REMOVE PLACEHOLDER

[Debug ] TimelineDock::setSelection Changing selection to QList(QPoint(1,0)) trackIndex -1 isMultitrack false

[Debug ] Timeline::AddTrackCommand::redo video

[Debug ] TimelineDock::setSelection Changing selection to QList(QPoint(1,1)) trackIndex -1 isMultitrack false

After this part I have to restart my machine. I can reproduce it consistently.

Thank you

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Your AVIF is not detected as a normal image and falls back to the audio/video reader (ffmpeg). That is treated as a nearly infinite video. The program tried to help you by asking for a duration. Do not click cancel because then it tries to add thousands of hours to the the timeline, which consumes all the memory. You can still extend the image as long as it needs once you give it a sane starting duration.

This is fixed for the next version 25.12 by not continuing the action when you choose Cancel (consistent with adding to Playlist).

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