diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts
index 1d6191c35..ea1e6b4b2 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import log from "@/next/log";
 import { ComlinkWorker } from "@/next/worker/comlink-worker";
 import { validateAndGetCreationUnixTimeInMicroSeconds } from "@ente/shared/time";
 import { Remote } from "comlink";
@@ -15,69 +14,59 @@ import { type DedicatedFFmpegWorker } from "worker/ffmpeg.worker";
 export async function generateVideoThumbnail(
     file: File | ElectronFile,
 ): Promise<File | ElectronFile> {
-    try {
-        let seekTime = 1;
-        while (seekTime >= 0) {
-            try {
-                return await ffmpegExec(
-                    [
-                        FFMPEG_PLACEHOLDER,
-                        "-i",
-                        INPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
-                        "-ss",
-                        `00:00:0${seekTime}`,
-                        "-vframes",
-                        "1",
-                        "-vf",
-                        "scale=-1:720",
-                        OUTPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
-                    ],
-                    file,
-                    "thumb.jpeg",
-                );
-            } catch (e) {
-                if (seekTime === 0) {
-                    throw e;
-                }
+    let seekTime = 1;
+    while (seekTime >= 0) {
+        try {
+            return await ffmpegExec(
+                [
+                    FFMPEG_PLACEHOLDER,
+                    "-i",
+                    INPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
+                    "-ss",
+                    `00:00:0${seekTime}`,
+                    "-vframes",
+                    "1",
+                    "-vf",
+                    "scale=-1:720",
+                    OUTPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
+                ],
+                file,
+                "thumb.jpeg",
+            );
+        } catch (e) {
+            if (seekTime === 0) {
+                throw e;
             }
-            seekTime--;
         }
-    } catch (e) {
-        log.error("ffmpeg generateVideoThumbnail failed", e);
-        throw e;
+        seekTime--;
     }
 }
 
 /** Called during upload */
 export async function extractVideoMetadata(file: File | ElectronFile) {
-    try {
-        // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9464617/retrieving-and-saving-media-metadata-using-ffmpeg
-        // -c [short for codex] copy[(stream_specifier)[ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Stream-specifiers]] => copies all the stream without re-encoding
-        // -map_metadata [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Advanced-options search for map_metadata] => copies all stream metadata to the out
-        // -f ffmetadata [https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#Metadata-1] => dump metadata from media files into a simple UTF-8-encoded INI-like text file
-        const metadata = await ffmpegExec(
-            [
-                FFMPEG_PLACEHOLDER,
-                "-i",
-                INPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
-                "-c",
-                "copy",
-                "-map_metadata",
-                "0",
-                "-f",
-                "ffmetadata",
-                OUTPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
-            ],
-            file,
-            `metadata.txt`,
-        );
-        return parseFFmpegExtractedMetadata(
-            new Uint8Array(await metadata.arrayBuffer()),
-        );
-    } catch (e) {
-        log.error("ffmpeg extractVideoMetadata failed", e);
-        throw e;
-    }
+    // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9464617/retrieving-and-saving-media-metadata-using-ffmpeg
+    // -c [short for codex] copy[(stream_specifier)[ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Stream-specifiers]] => copies all the stream without re-encoding
+    // -map_metadata [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Advanced-options search for map_metadata] => copies all stream metadata to the out
+    // -f ffmetadata [https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#Metadata-1] => dump metadata from media files into a simple UTF-8-encoded INI-like text file
+    const metadata = await ffmpegExec(
+        [
+            FFMPEG_PLACEHOLDER,
+            "-i",
+            INPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
+            "-c",
+            "copy",
+            "-map_metadata",
+            "0",
+            "-f",
+            "ffmetadata",
+            OUTPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
+        ],
+        file,
+        `metadata.txt`,
+    );
+    return parseFFmpegExtractedMetadata(
+        new Uint8Array(await metadata.arrayBuffer()),
+    );
 }
 
 enum MetadataTags {
@@ -146,24 +135,19 @@ function parseCreationTime(creationTime: string) {
 
 /** Called when viewing a file */
 export async function convertToMP4(file: File) {
-    try {
-        return await ffmpegExec(
-            [
-                FFMPEG_PLACEHOLDER,
-                "-i",
-                INPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
-                "-preset",
-                "ultrafast",
-                OUTPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
-            ],
-            file,
-            "output.mp4",
-            true,
-        );
-    } catch (e) {
-        log.error("ffmpeg convertToMP4 failed", e);
-        throw e;
-    }
+    return await ffmpegExec(
+        [
+            FFMPEG_PLACEHOLDER,
+            "-i",
+            INPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
+            "-preset",
+            "ultrafast",
+            OUTPUT_PATH_PLACEHOLDER,
+        ],
+        file,
+        "output.mp4",
+        true,
+    );
 }
 
 /**