P: Crash during DNG Creation after using Denoise

Denoised files inside a collection *IS* the problem.

Denoised files only inside a folder are OK

It looks like the problem only occurs on denoised HDR files. I don't see crashes when I denoise NEF files.

So merge then denoise cause problem.

But denoise then merge doesn't seem possible. I am getting an error when I try to merge the denoised DNG

I would provide the dng image but I can't find how to attach files

The crash happens with "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" off or on

I have lightroom classic 14.1.1 under windows 11 and it crashes if a dng created by the denoise AI feature is in the catalog

I am really disappointed by Adobe at this point. The creative cloud services aren't cheap and they do not seem to care that with the LrC 14 update the app became unusable. Damm fix the bugs. We pay for that stuff!!!!

Any arogress on the issue?

"Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" is not enabled. I have done some testing and it seems the crashes mainly appear with hdr dng files, that have been produced inside LrC.

From our initial investigation using the crash report attached, it appears that the crash is not coming from denoise operation, but from a dng file creation that's happening after denoise operation and this is causing the crash. This could be due to the smart-preview generation happening in the background, can you please check if you have following option turned off in Lightroom Preferences -> Performance tab : "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" ? @Tarquinius753

If possible, can you also provide info on whether this crash happening for all images or some specific set of images ?