I find it very annoying that the auto keyframing happens and would like to do it manually how do i turn it off its driving me crazy and screwing up stuff im trying to work on. I'm looking through the help pdf and the interface and i cant seem to find an option for it.
I presume you mean the way it places a keyframe whenever you move the effect slider?
If so the answer is you cannot turn it off, but I guess you realise this only happens if there has been a previous KF set for the effect, somewhere in the clip, and if you do not want KF's then why set one initially? Not sure I understand...