Shotcut started crashing immediately after opening

It looks as if you screwed up your display settings. The simplest thing would be to re-install Shotcut ticking the option to “remove registry settings”. There are other way, such as editing the registry setting, or deleting them, but personally I am always nervous when I open regEdit. If you have tailored the Shotcut interface to your liking though you might want to do that instead. See here for instructions: