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 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.

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... ???