I too had many doubts about running vista 64. However, I've been using it with Media Composer for more than a year now and it's the best improvement to my editing workflow in years! I've found it very stable and the increase in power is well worth it - especially if you do any After Effects work on the same machine.

I see the tearing in the record monitor on my MC 3.5.4 Nitris DX system all the time. But it is only during playback on the computer monitors. It never happens on our 50" Plasma client monitor. It seems it's only an issue with interlacing artifacts when displayed on a non-interlaced monitor.

Download the free trial version of Adobe Sound Booth (formally Audition) - it has a very good noise reduction function.

Power Macs haven't been manufactured for a long time. I think you mean to say Mac Pro.

I too have the "Promote title to" bug. It began with 3.5.4.3. Tried everything. It's definitely a bug.

The audio and site settings are not a problem on my Nitris, but I the promote to Marquee dialog happens on my system constantly.

I used a free trial version of FontCreator. (http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator.html) to rename a single TTF Arial Bold font to "AAAAA" My bin fonts now stay the same when other fonts are loaded.

Probem Solved. I simply used a font editing program to rename my preferred font to AAAAA and now it's first in the list so no matter how many new fonts are added, Avid always loads it properly.

Here's one I hope someone can help explain... Whenever a new font is installed, the custom fonts I have selected for Bins, Timeline, Composer and Project Window change. What appears to happen is that Media Composer keeps track of fonts by numerical order instead of the font name. For example, if 2 new fonts are installed, MC changes from the previously

I think you are using the wrong driver. The current Avid qualified NVIDIA driver is 169.47 for Media Composer 3.1. Look in your Program Files/Avid/Utilities/nVidia/ and choose your operating system. Avid supplies drivers for Vista 32 & 64 and WinXP. If this doesn't solve your problem, try swapping the monitor cables. Are you connecting via DVI