Shotcut freezes or crashes crashes when moving a clip in a long project

Elusien · July 24, 2022, 9:51am

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Performance issue when moving clips in or among video tracks

opened 09:14AM - 10 Feb 21 UTC

Shotcut - Windows 10 - presumably all versions Steps to reproduce: 1.) Creat…e a project with several video tracks and so many clips that moving one doesn't seem "instantaneous" - even on a very fast machine this is not more than a few hundred (the project from issue #1029 may serve as an example) 2.) Drag an arbitrary clip from the timeline within its track and WITHOUT ever leaving said track - this is your normal operation speed for reference 3.) Drag the same clip but to another track - operation takes around 100 times longer (much longer than select, Ctrl+C, position playhead, Ctrl+B, Del of the original clip would take), at least several seconds 4.) Surprisingly this also happens if you just briefly leave the orignal track while dragging, even when releasing the clip on its original track but at a different position - the operation takes a very long time

in Dan’s full post here:

Cut & Paste, rather than Drag, does not have this problem.