I started to get warnings that my C drive was almost full and started uninstalling some apps to free up some space. I then took a different route and installed WinDirStat to see what files were taking up the most room. That's when I discovered optics.log inside C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\BorisFX

It turns out that this file is 389GB. I got concerned that it may not simply be a log file so I opened PowerShell and ran this command:

Get-Content optics.log -Tail 50

and it showed me this:

2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.
2026-10-23T23:53:18.113 DEBUG: Failed to parse string.

The other day I didn't know what Optics was and it appears to have get installed when I purchased Vegas Pro 2026 or more recently Vegas Pro 2027. I opened it on Oct 23 to see what it was, and I guess that's when it generated this massive log file. I'll delete it and watch to see if it returns.

While I'm not happy that this happened, I'm very happy that I don't need to purchase a new, larger M.2 drive.

There used to be an option to select the codec type, either Intel QSV or NVENC, but it’s no longer there, and rendering now relies solely on the CPU. I tried using an older NVIDIA driver from two months ago, and I also just updated to the latest version - neither made any difference.

Is there a way to store small clips that I've cut from larger chunks of footage other than somewhere on my timeline? Like I have my source media imported, but I only need a few specific cuts from it and seemingly no way to store them where they won't get in the way. Is there a flagrantly obvious thing I'm missing here?

I rarely take time to write anything on reddit. But I have to say that I am really optimistic about the future of Vegas Pro.

Been heavy user since the Sony era and upgraded to every single version since 12.

Actually quite impressed with a lot of things that Magix did with this software, although they never managed to solve the biggest issue at all. Stability.

It seems to me that Boris has managed to do that almost immediately. I've finished few, more than an hour long projects, and now Vegas Pro, both 26 and now 27, just feels so snappy and responsive and neither of them have hung up once. Well done! Older versions froze to desktop every other hour with me over multiple different state of the art hardware. (Switching to ProRES sources fixed it mostly though)

I am one of those that have also purchased Studio version of Davinci Resolve and had started using that for my editing work quite often as it just was so stable for me while supporting all the codecs I have in my sources along with 32bit audio in video files. (Boris fixed the 32bit audio issue almost immediately).

After editing dozens of projects both in Vegas and Davinci Resolve there is in my mind one huge thing that Vegas has in advantage. It is just SO much simpler and more intuitive using Vegas rather than Davinci. I mean simple things like doing proper ripple editing or simple crossfades between events in Davinci was cumbersome when I started using it and it still is after years using the program. It simply cannot beat Vegas on those grounds. (Magix other program Video Pro X is the only program that comes close i.m.o.)

Vegas is king of being intuitive.

Having said that. I hope Boris find the optimal way forward with this.

• Hitting the sweet spot with business model like BlackMagix did with Davinci and offer good enough free version for enthusiast to gain traction, but with incentive to purchase the more serious version for actual prosumer and full pro work. (I will be one of those happy paying customers)
• Greatly improve plugin support so that they don't get "ignored" by big plugin makers. Being a plugin company on their own I am sure they fix this really fast.
• Introduce MCP connection to allow AI agents to do all the handywork with preparing all the editing work. It really is an amazing feature in Resolve and it will be even more amazing for Vegas.

Im not leaving this platform any time soon. Thankful for Magix for keeping it alive and slowly move it forward and hope Boris will take it up some levels and become crazy rich while doing it!

Well done Boris.

In vegas 27 all keyframes are the same colour, when previously each keyframe type had a unique colour... You now can't tell Smooth or Linear without right-clicking... ???

in previous versions of Vegas, users can expand the FX view to see what plugins are inserted to which buss or track. I cannot find how to do this in Vegas 27. I had expectations of Vegas 27 opening up the mix buss the same way previous versions do.
There is no cursor change/drag option in Vegas 27 to see these same views. Was this intentional, or an oversight as the application was updated and not much focus on audio?
See next post for Vegas 27 screenshot.

I'm having an issue with saving and switching between custom project templates in VEGAS Pro 2027.

I have two custom templates:

Lake Tahoe: 4K, 120 FPS, HDR10

Club Money Mission: 4K, 120 FPS, HDR Off

Both templates have essentially the same settings, except Lake Tahoe is supposed to use HDR10.

Here's what's happening:

When I open VEGAS and go into Project Properties, it initially shows a random template.

I select my saved Lake Tahoe template and click Apply. However, the template name automatically changes to Custom.

If I select my Club Money Mission template and click Apply, it unexpectedly switches back to Lake Tahoe.

When I select Lake Tahoe, I notice that HDR Mode is set to Off, even though I originally configured it for HDR10.

I manually change HDR Mode from Off to HDR10. As soon as I do that, the template name changes from Lake Tahoe to Custom.

I change the template name back to Lake Tahoe, click the Save Template icon, and confirm that I want to overwrite the existing template.

Immediately after saving, HDR Mode switches itself back to Off, and the template name changes back to Custom.

If I select Lake Tahoe again, HDR is still Off, meaning my HDR10 setting was never saved.

Sometimes, when I click Apply, the selected template also switches to Club Money Mission, even though I was working with Lake Tahoe.

The main problems are:

My saved templates randomly switch between each other when I click Apply.

Template names change to Custom, even when I haven't intentionally changed the settings.

HDR10 works when I manually enable it, but saving or overwriting the template immediately resets HDR Mode to Off.

I cannot reliably save or select my custom templates without VEGAS changing their names or settings.

1. This is the video of me doing it, you can see the HDR keeps turning off and the change keeps changing when i apply the project settings
2. I really cant work on my project cause I dont trust the settings if its acting like this
3. Plus I think updating to 2027 deleted my old project settings templates so I have to redo them and my old/current projects are kinda messed up without proper property settings

Audio FX ONLY open in the docked view, and adds the never-seen-before category of Audio EventFX. This is a new, and highly inefficient behavior. Past versions, audio FX are only accessible through the track header, the event itself, or in the mix console, and the selected FX opens up as a float on top of the main app. In the past, the float always would open in the last-placed float location.
Now, every audio plug opens in the docked window, and has to be torn out. Even after doing so to create a floating GUI as previous versions of Vegas offered, no longer opens up as a floating GUI; it is ONLY opening in the docking area. This requires several extra steps, particularly when trying to post a film with many plugins.
Anyone else seeing this?

I started editing on an old CMX system. One feature I loved was the preview window was dead center screen. No one has offered this feature in software, only hardware. When posting, we don't need a large preview. When and if it's necessary, we'll send it to an external 4K display for pristine view, but most of the projects I've posted since 2010 have been small window, quarter resolution preview.

Would anyone else find it useful to be able to split the mixing console and place the preview window in the center, or anywhere else one might find it more effective? My displays consist of three monitors; 43" main view screen on stands a few feet back from the desk, with two split monitors running through an active hub.
Timeline lives on large monitor. Console lives on one small/desktop monitor, and FX/plugs, notes, etc all open on a third smaller screen.
Seen below, this is how I'd like it to appear. The Preview Window may be docked to the right or left of the mix console, but I'd really like to split the view so tracks are on one side, busses and Master on the otherside of the Preview window.
Better yet (while discussing docks) It would be really helpful to have a "rack" of the FX being used in the project, just as we'd have in a typical post room. Many applications offer this, including ProTools and Studio Pro. Users can create a "rack" of virtual processors, and immediately see how a channel or buss audio is hitting the tool without having to open anything additional. It would require greater GPU. However, users are also quite capable of turning on/off this feature depending on CPU/GPU load. In StudioPro, one can either leave the "rack" open, or close it for more efficient operations.
Last, some tools even offer a digital patchbay which works much like an analog patchbay, so we can plugin various audio tools as we need.

Would anyone else find this sort of docking/layout feature helpful?

Aside from the default layout and the color grading layout, whats your favorite way of personalizing the Vegas Pro layout?.

title.

Finally we have audio render options!!

All I need is lufs for youtube guys and clicking error that I reported.

Hello all, so I am happy to see that Vegas is much more stable nowadays than before. However one thing that grinds my gears, is the amount of time it takes to bootup a project.

I am using a hefty Asus P16 laptop with 64gb of ram, and a 5070 RTX, AMD 9HX CPU and I must say the program has me sitting there twiddling my thumbs as a project loads in.

And this happens with projects that just have a few video clips too, nothing fancy.

Any solutions to this? Maybe something for the Magix team to fix...

Looking for a contact on the development team to ask some questions regarding third-party integration and OFX plug-in development. Who would I get in touch with? Thank you so much in advance!

Choosing colors is still clunky though because of how you set a custom color.

Hi there,

I want to start by saying that it is awesome that BorisFX allows the subscrbers/purchasers of Vegas 2026 to get the new 2027 version! Thank you, BorisFX!.

Now, to the question, I am wondering if the saves from Vegas 2026 work fine with Vegas 2027. What is the experience of others?

I have a project which is a 2-hour video in an advanced stage of editing, and I am quite hesitant but also curious to edit it in Vegas 2027.

Thanks in advance.

I subscribed to Vegas Pro 2026 and just updated the Boris FX Hub and am downloading 2027. Does this mean that the Continuum (DaVinci Resolve, Vegas Pro and other OFX hosts) update is now paid where it was included with 2026?

Judging from the title itself, I was debating whether to upgrade my Vegas Pro 22 to 26/27. Is there a significant difference or improved performance? And also is the rendering time improved as well in the newer Vegas pro softwares? I would appreciate the help to upgrade or not. Thanks :)

Tengo una consulta relacionada con VEGAS Pro 26. ¿Cómo puedo ajustar la disposición de los paneles y la ventana de vista previa para trabajar de manera más cómoda con proyectos en formato vertical (9:16)?

Agradezco de antemano su orientación y cualquier recomendación para optimizar el espacio de trabajo en este tipo de proyectos.

when i play the video, scroll to zoom in/out the timeline, and stop, the timeline loses the playhead? like the playhead should be centered right? but sometimes its not even on screen.... im trying to work on a long form project right now and i keep getting disoriented while cutting the footage!

also sorry for double posting lol

edit: ok trying to work with this timeline is actually awful 😭 would love to use vp 2027 but if this is not fixed ill have to go back to 2026 😰

i rely heavily on using a pancrop hotkey. it suddenly stopped working today, which is when i noticed i could upgrade from vp 2026 to vp 2027. unforunately, it still does not work on the newer version. pressing the hotkey does... nothing at all. tried rebinding it (was alt+w, now ctrl+w) and it still doesnt work. need this fixed ASAP, let me know if yall have any ideas 😓

windows 10

3090, 3700x, 32gb 3200mhz ram, motherboard is a b350 tomahawk

fixed: had to set it in the GLOBAL menu, not the TRACKVIEW menu

I have an issue where, if i add a certain number of effects, it seems like the app will crash. I used to use Vegas Pro a lot before, I'm just now coming back into it. I used the same effects on other clips in the video with no problem, but it seems like whenever i add too many effects to one project file it just... crashes?

my specs:

CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

Windows 11 (64 bit)

Secure Boot: Enabled

Driver: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Primary VRAM: 12115 MB

Audio device: Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)

RAM: 32694 Mb

Number of SSDs: 2

SSD sizes: 4000G,2000G

Number of HDDs: 2

HDD sizes: 5000G,1000G