Welcome to the Avid community Lizard52, You'll be better off over the Mac side of the forums https://community.avid.com/forums/48.aspx

Hi Marianna, thank You for Your time, and, most of all, for caring. I'm the same as the last time You've heard from me, mostly jobless but at least keeping safe, how about You? Please stay safe! After touviere7 posted I double checked the Select Project thing: by closing the "MediaCentral Login" clicking on the triangle next to it

[quote user="touviere7"] luca, on my system, it always open with the last project highlighted, and hitting enter does the trick - everytime... [/quote] This was the same on MC 2019.x here, new user settings with both releases. Very weird... gremlins attack?

[quote user="touviere7"] [quote user="The Legacy Mill"]why switch the 'open/ok' and the 'quit' buttons on the project startup screen? I've probably hit the 'quit' button 20 times in last couple days out of muscle memory.[/quote] no need to use those buttons...just highlight your project in the list and

Don't know more than the playback troubles, but the GTX GPU might be another source of problems, MC likes Quadro cards. You may try with different nVidia drivers, the latest is not necessarily the best working with MC.

Also please note that MC is reported to have playback issues with AMD CPUs, as far as being unusable. Anyone with an AMD system claiming to run MC does not know what running MC is like.

[quote user="philip kapadia"]this is my first post ever[/quote]What an unpleasant first post attacking MC on an MC forum.[quote user="philip kapadia"]I'm 16 years of age and I've been teaching myself how to use media composer for 2 years now.[/quote]I'm almost 60, took editing and Avid classes from major editors in LA

[quote user="philip kapadia"] Hi, I mean, it looks good but I could do excatly the same in adobe premiere xD. I can see that you've rendered your effects on the timeline, and your probably editing this offline so there shouldn't be any surprises about the speed lol Philip [/quote]First post ever for a Ryzen/GTX HW runner, obviously

Yes Indeed, MC is finicky as for monitors configuration at OS level, You'll have to be neat and tidy. As for rebuilding user settings, it's an annoyance, but there's no other NLE as compatible across versions as MC is. I happen to move projects between systems running different MC versions, and/or to reopen (very) old projects, I couldn't

[quote user="Arnoud"]My PC has an Nvidia RTX2080ti card[/quote]I'm afraid that You'll have to spot a driver that works well with 2020.4. I'm not a fan of the new GUI, but I do not see as many faults.