Shotcut not working on new asus tuf DASH f15

[Elusien]

See this thread (which at first glance doesn’t appear to be relevant - but it is) for more suggestions:

Shotcut is maxing out my 16GB RAM and freezing

I have a pretty good laptop with 16GB RAM that should NOT be freezing after trying to fade in audio, or scrolling, or doing literally anything when I have only 2 tracks and a 1080p video. I checked Task Manager and apparently Shotcut is using 11.5GB of my RAM, which is going up to 97%. CPU is no more than 30%. There is absolutely no reason for it to need 11GB RAM when I’m just importing a 500MB video file. What should I do?