Proxy Creation blocks Shotcut for Minutes

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  • What is your operating system?

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
OS Version: 10.0.26200 N/A Build 26200

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

Shotcut version 25.10.31

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

  • Playlist-only project.

  • Added ~600 files to the project (all from the NAS)

  • Change folder for proxy to a local machine one

  • Turning on proxies and starting the convert process is blocking the whole program

  • In the proxy folder I see a lot of files being created with syntax hash.pending.mp4, e.g. 968758fd611457387365064cc188b861.pending.mp4

  • However, it takes several minutes until Shotcut is reacting again

To ease the situation I had to start one proxy file creation manually. By that I am able to pause the queue. Otherwise, the creating of the files and the proxy creation are running in parallel which will take even longer until Shotcut will react again

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There should be a progress dialog that appears around operations that can take a long time, and I see it is missing here. The progress dialog also prevents the OS from reporting the app is not responding. This will be easy to fix for version 26.01.

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This is fixed for the next version. It will still block any interactive work while enqueuing jobs, but it displays a progress dialog instead of seeming dead and causing the OS to report not responding:

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