Spot,
I have no problem removing the videoFX plug-ins while I'm in the process of putting them in -- then I get the dialogue box you describe with those buttons and icons and I can delete and change effects very quickly.

However, once I've finished my project, or if I decide to GO BACK LATER to remove the videoFX, I can no longer bring up that particular dialogue box. I only get the box that has a list of the plug-in effects and no delete buttons. (This is after I click on the little FX icon on the event itself). Do you know what I mean, or shall I try to explain it another way?
thanks

You mean after you RENDER the project? If so, you cannot remove FX after a render. That's like trying to remove the eggs from a cake you've just baked.

Any event, track, or bus that has FX on it, will display a green button. Otherwise, it's grey. Opening the FX by pressing this button pulls up the same dialog you had when you inserted the FX, and removing the FX after you've watched that section of the project is the same as removing it when you put it on.
Maybe I'm not understanding your question fully.

No, certainly not after I render the project. I was trying to explain the diff between actively applying and removing effects THAT I can do), and trying the remove the effect, say when I'm tweaking the project when it's almost finished BEFORE I render, and I decide I don't like that particular effect -) in this case a border.)

Now, in the mean time, as I've been working on the project, I also notice that this same border that I want to remove is on events I never intended it to be in the first place.! I KNOW I didn't drop them on these events.

I was also trying out some 3D on the final event in the video (this happens to be one of the places that has the unwanted border) and it has put the same 3D effect on all the other events that have the unwanted borders! It looks like whatever I do to one of these clips, also affects a few others.
I'm totally puzzled.

I noticed there is a blue line running all the way across the top of my events that says it's a composite level control when I click on it. Does that have anything to do with it?

If you can't answer tonight because of timing, I will look for any possible solutions tomorrow, although I will still be working on trying to solve this.
thanks a lot.
lili

I like the 3D i created on the last clip, but now how do I remove it from all the other places and NOT from the last event?

Hi Spot,
since you took the time to help, I thought I should at least update you on the outcome.
I ended up creating a separate test file and threw some events on the timeline to which I applied video effects. Even after I closed and reopened the file, everything worked just as you described - ie easily deleting and/or changing the border effect.

IHowever, that STILL would not work in the project I had the difficulty with. What finally did get rid of the borders? Well, I created a new video track and put clips that had the borders on that, and deleted the track they were on that also contained the borders.

Does this solution give you, or anyone, an indication of what the problem was, and still is for me actually, since I don't why I couldn't just delete the borders the same way I did in the aforementioned test video?

Someday when I'm an editing whiz, I'll think back to all the stupid questions I posted on this forum and shake my head in disbelief!

thanks again!
lili

Is it possible you applied the FX to a track vs and event, or to the project vs the event or track? Or could you have applied it in the Media Pool so that all events from that clip were affected?