FCE Video Effect Error - "FXScript Error: Expected a Number"

I am trying to use a Video Effect on FCE4 and I am getting a error: "FXScript Error: Expected a Number." I am using the effect TMTS Paint - Speck Removal and when I select Render this error pops up. I have entered the cordinates for where the effect is to take place but this error keeps coming up with this effect. Is there a problem with the effect, should I try to load another Speck Removal Effect? Thanks

I guess you mean the Scratch Removal. It works with me...
The error message should occur only if the script code has some bad syntax error... but the plugin code is quite straightforward, and it doesn't show any error of that kind. So may be your plugin file got corrupted.
I suggest you to download the filter again and try once more.
Piero

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I am trying to recalculate a figure based on an annual percentage. The script is
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endfix
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I receive the error "expected type [NUMBER] found [STRING] (["AC_&&&&&&"]) in function[operator@div"
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This validated but the salary figure disappeared.
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Thanks,
Nathan

A few questions:
1) I see an ENDEXCLUDE, but no starting EXCLUDE. How does that relate to the code?
2) Do you really have member names with six ampersands in them? Is that even an allowed character? I guess it is but it looks odd as & is the character used to define the usage of an Essbase Substitution Variable. Okay, that was a comment, not a question, I guess.
3) Do you have a Pay Increase% in every month? Or is it annual?
3) Why don't you stick the salary value to be allocated into another Account, e.g., "Annual Salary" and place it in a single month. Then your code could look like:
FIX(yr2011, Plan, CC_4363,draft, "Jan":"Dec")
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I created a BegBalance member which you may not have -- chose Dec or Jan as your home for Annual Salary and Pay Increase and go from there. I also forced the calc to happen at the month level -- I am assuming you have months in your app, but maybe not. Salt to taste.
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We're in the process of upgrading our sequences from 3.5 to
4.0 and for the most part, everything is seamless. However, there is one situation I’ve found
that throws a RTE in 4.0 but works fine in 3.5.
When calling SetPropertyObject on an object reference, the following
error is thrown:
Parameter 'newValue': Expected Container, found Object Reference.
-17308; Specified value does not have the expected type.
Attached is a sequence snippet illustrating this
behavior. The last step should assign
the variable in Parameters with the name in TempStr (“Fred” in this example) to
the first element in the TraceObjRefs array (an array of object references).
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3.5. Any insight as to what changed or
what’s the best way to work around this?
Attachments:
AliasBreak35.seq ‏46 KB

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I attached a sequence with some experiments, using the NI_Limits type and found a solution: the Evaluate method seems to actually copy the values from the source container to the target; but only when it is not called as "PropertyObject.Evaluate()" but stand alone.
But I did not quite understand the mechanics of the aliases. In the sequence, I create an alias, as indicated in the previous posts. Then I can apparently not change that alias again. I used the "Data" member in the NI_Limits container to differentiate between the individual containers.
After the second SetPropertyObject, the value stays the same as before. But when I then change the value in one of the source objects, the other changes with it.
So I am not quite clear what an alias actually is and what its effects are.
Regards
Peter
Attachments:
TestObjRef.seq ‏6 KB

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Screen Shot Here:http://gyazo.com/794429fd1091973c8a296a27d2af6fab.png
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http://gyazo.com/53c7a2789a752cfba7e908bed31d7c01.png
http://gyazo.com/da0cacaf4ef6d7e3276b6aa45b77da79.png
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http://gyazo.com/25346bb318edadc54e09273977964c7d.png
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It sounds like Looks is only crashing on this project. If that is so then it's most likely a problem with one of your video clips. Either there's a corrupted frame or some other codec glitch that's throwing the errors. I'd suggest replacing footage items with temporary footage. You could even use solids. Replace one at a time, then undo, until you find the footage that's causing the crash. Then either re-compress that footage to another codec or replace it.
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Hi HR and everyone that have the problem error (-1610153453)
In my case I solved the problem changing the destination folder, I was rendering in a folder with a non english character! in my spanish language we have the "Ñ" ('n' with a wave on top ) after effects mp4 codec NO Ñ or cyrillic, etc...
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Since you seemed to miss it, I'll just directly give you the link provided on that thread, but I really recommend that you carefully read that thread about the issue that you're facing. It inlcudes information about conflicts with ATI drivers.

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SMBIOS Version    2.7
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System Directory    C:\Windows\system32
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Page File Space    16.0 GB
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INF File    oem76.inf (Section030 section)
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Color Table Entries    4294967296
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Bits/Pixel    32
Memory Address    0xFC000000-0xFDFFFFFF
Memory Address    0xF0000000-0xF7FFFFFF
Memory Address    0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF
I/O Port    0x0000E000-0x0000E07F
IRQ Channel    IRQ 24
I/O Port    0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port    0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address    0xA0000-0xBFFFF
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