Regarding the grain; sorry I'm late to the party. I think that Vue is great as is. V5I is stable on my system without updates. My major peeve is the grain, which had put me off to the point of considering to use a different solution. Furthermore, why would ILM use a product that has such a major "defect"? I recently discovered that grain can easily be removed in Photoshop or AfterEffects (I do animation primarily but the process is exactly the same) if you apply a Gaussian blur to the image(s) with a value of 0.5, vastly improving the image's (perceived) quality.