Drawing a square outline?

Hi All,
Is it possible to produce in FCE HD the outline of a box superimposed upon a sequence? What I need are thin white lines in the form of a square outlining the sequence. I checked under video generator / shapes, but couldn't find anything that would produce a square. I thought about Mattes, but really don't know enough about it. I have no dexterity at all with Photoshop. I have photoshop elements, but again, I don't really use it. If that's the way to go, would someone be willing to explain how I can create a square that's not filled?
THANKS!!

Ian,
Basic Border and Bevel create borders around the full frame of the sequence.
May be this is just what Ira needed...
My attempt with Photoshop was to create border shapes of any size to superimpose to any portion of a clip. But I ran into that very bad problem.. now I'm very suspicious about ANY import of pictures to FCE (something I did often in the past).
Joe's filters include a quite powerful generator of shapes
http://www.joesfilters.com/joesshapes.php
that is part of a package I never tried, but seems professional to me. Just not very cheap.
So I'm working at something homemade. I already have a beta version: sounds promising. If anybody is interested let me know...
Piero

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