I'm sorry if this has been asked before,

I'm transitioning from the ancient Sony Vegas Pro 14 to Vegas Pro 19,

and I've spent the last hour pulling my hair out trying to get rid of this

it appears on every Video FX or Media Generator such as title or Protype titler and there is nothing I could do to get rid of it.
I've tried to use tool->script->remove time code from all media but it doesn't seem to do anything.

any help is appreciated, thank you!!