From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training
Welcome - DaVinci Resolve Tutorial
From the course: DaVinci Resolve 12 Essential Training
Welcome
- Hello, welcome to Lynda.com's DaVinci Resolve 12 essential training. I'm Patrick Inhofer and in this title we're gonna dig deep into Blackmagic Design's color correction software, DaVinci Resolve 12. My goal for you in this title is to have you comfortably color correcting, grading, and even editing in Resolve. You'll be able to work on any type of project, corporate video, documentary, short, feature film even Whisker the Cat's YouTube channel, and you'll be able to do editing and color correction. Now color correction is a finishing step appropriate for every project. The minimum end goal of color correction is the seamless flow of your images. If your audience is mentally fixing problems the video plays down, they will never get drawn into your message. After you fix problems with the image you need to be sure your audience always knows where to look. And with today's fast paced editing, they'll need your help or they'll get lost and that is what DaVinci Resolve is here to help you do. Solve problems, control the audience's eye, and draw your viewers into your message. And I'm here to help you learn how to use DaVinci Resolve and here's lesson number one about working with Resolve. It's version 12, yes, the software team has done an amazing job updating the user interface, but the core workflows can feel very, very confusing. The number of options often threaten to overwhelm you. That's what happens with software that's over a decade in development. That's why we're gonna take this slow, and be methodical. To get you started learning DaVinci Resolve, we're gonna start by understanding operating systems and the computer hardware that Resolve 12 supports. You'll learn the differences between DaVinci Resolve, which is free, and DaVinci Resolve Studio, which costs money, and yes, you can use either Resolve, or Resolve Studio with this training. Only a handful of features are specific to Resolve Studio, otherwise the two pieces of software are identical. Now, after learning how to build a reliable system for Resolve, I'll get you up to speed on Resolve's interface and have you creating projects. I'll show you how to import footage and timelines, organize those footage and timelines. And we'll cover the essentials of how to use Resolve 12's enhanced nonlinear editing tool set. For the rest of the training, it's a grand tour of the famous DaVinci Resolve color correction workflow. You'll learn how to use primary tools and secondary tools, you'll learn how those tools can be controlled using shapes and keys. All of which allow us to make really big, honking color corrections, or very targeted, precise subtle corrections. There are also Resolve-specific concepts, like powergrades and nodes that you'll learn. And if any of this sounds foreign to you, I've scattered colorist lingo movies throughout this training. I'll explain concepts such as primary corrections, secondary corrections, vignettes, serial nodes. You'll get an intro into shot matching, and creating multiple versions, grouping shots and color correcting those groups. The basics of creating looks and using third party plug-ins. And from the footage we've licensed for this training, we'll pool together the hero shots timeline. It's a workflow that jump starts our discussions with our directors, producers, clients, coworkers. Now, what if you're familiar with earlier versions of DaVinci Resolve, well we've got a what's new chapter just for you. But unless you took our Resolve 11 training, I urge you, go through this series. Why? You know that one feature you wish DaVinci Resolve had? It probably has it, you just missed it when it rolled out. Training like this is a perfect time to find a bunch of features that Resolve has that you missed. All it takes is to discover a few of those, and this training will have paid for itself 100 times over. Does this sound like a lot? Well like I said, we're gonna move slow. This training builds upon itself, and introduces new tools, only after the concepts that are built upon, are first taught to you. And when you're done here, don't forget to look for our other DaVinci Resolve 12 training here on Lynda.com. Who am I? I'm Patrick Inhofer, a professional colorist with over 25 years experience in video post production and color correction. Many of the concepts I'll be sharing with you here were hard-learned lessons. And everything you're seeing me do, it's what I do. And my color correction software skills are mostly self-taught so I've gone through your pain and will share with you my tips and tricks for avoiding all the mine fields in really, what's essentially, a subjective endeavor. Without further delay, let's get you up and running in DaVinci Resolve 12. Thank you for joining me, happy learning!
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Who should watch this chapter?1m 12s
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The new single-user mode1m 15s
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The new user interface in 4 minutes4m 31s
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Useful new keyboard shortcuts4m 31s
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Five don't-miss features in 4 minutes5m 17s
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Simple clip relinking2m 30s
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Media Storage favorite shortcuts1m 39s
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Smart Bins2m 15s
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Smooth Cut for jump cut edits2m 16s
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Timeline Smart Filters3m 28s
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Revealing Resolve's order of operations pipeline1m 49s
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Bezier handles in Resolve 123m 49s
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Compound nodes3m 5s
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Tracker: The new 3D perspective tracker2m 20s
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Tracker: The new "frame" behavior4m 5s
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Group grading: Collapsing grades to the clip level2m 13s
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Keying: The new 3D keyer3m 3s
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Keying: New Clean Black and Clean White tools2m 17s
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Media Management panel3m 11s
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Avid Pro Tools export2m 2s
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Who uses DaVinci Resolve?3m 35s
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Overview: The DaVinci Resolve toolset6m
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DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio8m 21s
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Building a Resolve system: Overview7m 21s
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Building a Resolve system: Computer hardware7m 50s
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Building a Resolve system: Monitors and calibration8m 19s
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Installing and launching DaVinci Resolve for the first time4m 42s
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Updating from earlier versions of DaVinci Resolve8m 23s
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Overview of the Resolve interface7m 34s
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Customizing your workspace (NEW)8m 38s
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Resolve System Preferences5m 23s
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Essential Project Settings7m 20s
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Tweaking preferences for better performance (NEW)6m 31s
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Overview: The Media page11m 4s
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Overview: The Edit page13m 44s
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Overview: The Color page5m 57s
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Overview: The Deliver page4m 22s
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Overview: Dual monitor setup6m 27s
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The Documentary: Analyzing and importing footage6m 19s
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The Documentary: Creating the timeline7m 29s
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The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 16m 29s
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The Documentary: Importing an XML file, method 23m 5s
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Navigating the Edit page11m 23s
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Organizing your media with Smart Bins3m 31s
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Keyboard shortcuts for editing5m 6s
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Keyboard mapping3m 49s
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Additional timeline commands6m 23s
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Working in the Edit mode7m 38s
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Working in the Trim mode11m
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Trimming in the Source Viewer3m 1s
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Track targeting 1015m 36s
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Working with audio9m 14s
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The Clip Inspector6m 52s
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Working with titles6m 6s
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Transitions, effects, and clip properties7m 19s
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How to prepare a timeline for color correction9m 30s
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Exporting XMLs and self-contained reference movies from your NLE7m 49s
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Conforming a timeline with an XML file7m 43s
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Checking the conform with a reference movie11m 40s
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Automatic scene cut detection: Getting started4m 29s
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Automatic scene cut detection: Pruning your edits7m 1s
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Automatic scene cut detection: Reconstructing the timeline5m 35s
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Automatic scene cut detection: Dealing with dissolves5m 52s
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Creative spotting session: Selecting hero shots and timeline filtering8m 14s
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Using scopes: Analyzing contrast and exposure12m 45s
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Using scopes: Analyzing color and saturation7m 9s
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Using the vectorscope: Analyzing color and saturation6m 44s
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Working with the Broadcast Safe filter6m 23s
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Using video scopes to analyze the hero shots8m 7s
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Colorist lingo: What is a primary correction?5m 9s
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Primary color wheels: The Offset control9m 20s
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Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain brightness9m 37s
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Primary color wheels: Lift Gamma Gain color changes6m 48s
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The primary sliders and YRGB processing9m 55s
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Color wheels: Getting faster with keyboard modifiers3m 56s
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Understanding the Contrast and Pivot controls7m 21s
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Adjusting hue and saturation4m 57s
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The RGB mixer8m 48s
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Using curves as primary corrections6m 25s
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Colorist lingo: What are raw and log formats and lookup tables (LUTs)?8m 25s
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Intro to color correcting: Raw5m 4s
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Intro to color correcting: Log with LUTs6m 19s
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In action: Hero shot and primary grades14m 8s
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Lingo: What is a serial node?5m 48s
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Adding, connecting, deleting, and resetting serial nodes11m 31s
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Node macros: Splitter/Combiner nodes4m 56s
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Specialty nodes: The Layer Mixer node and Parallel node5m 42s
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Using composite modes in the Layer Mixer node5m 13s
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Colorist lingo: What is a secondary correction?3m 33s
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Custom curves as secondary corrections7m 47s
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Log wheels as secondary corrections6m 46s
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Color wheels: Highlight and shadow controls3m 40s
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Color wheels: Color boost and midtone detail controls3m 40s
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Using the Hue vs. curves6m 40s
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Using the Lum vs. and the Sat vs. curves4m 23s
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Targeting corrections with the Hue/Saturation/Luminance (HSL) keyer8m 5s
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Understanding the HSL Matte Finesse controls5m 48s
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Targeting corrections with the new 3D keyer7m 15s
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Limiting HSL and 3D keys with Power Windows4m 29s
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Colorist lingo: What is a vignette?2m 27s
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Power window fundamentals: Basic controls3m 47s
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Power window fundamentals: Manipulating shapes6m 23s
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Power window fundamentals: Adding and copying and pasting shapes4m 23s
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Color correcting with power windows2m 44s
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Node macros: The Add Outside node9m 19s
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Power windows with the Tracker8m 41s
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Fine-tuning your tracking8m 29s
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In action: Hero shots and secondary corrections15m 4s
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Colorist lingo: What is shot matching? (Keynote)4m 58s
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Shot match workflow: Matching exposure9m 16s
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Shot match workflow: Matching color9m 45s
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The automatic Shot Match tool6m 41s
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Overview: The Gallery3m 53s
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Gallery: The Reference Wipe3m 15s
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Gallery: Copying grades and nodes5m 29s
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Versions: Flipping between multiple color corrections4m 40s
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Matching skin tone: The fundamentals6m 29s
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Matching skin tone: Examples9m 21s
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Power grades: Understanding "stills on the go"6m 32s
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In action: Hero shots and shot matching9m 2s
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PowerGrades presets: How to find and use them6m 33s
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Groups: Powerfully grading entire scenes at once7m 3s
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Blur and sharpen: Fundamentals3m 57s
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OpenFX: Using third-party plugins4m 18s
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Render cache: Smart mode6m 8s
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Keyframing fundamentals9m 2s
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In action: Hero shots and looks, part 16m 45s
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In action: Hero shots and looks, part 27m 42s
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Welcome1m 47s
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Importing the update1m 47s
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DaVinci Resolve vs. DaVinci Resolve Studio12m 54s
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New minimum software requirements3m 29s
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Obvious user interface changes5m 24s
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Closer look: New menus5m 31s
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Keyboard shortcuts: New commands worth mapping4m 37s
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Save Status icon1m 11s
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Frame delay option for Record Viewer3m 6s
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Easily create diagnostic logs for Blackmagic support2m 17s
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High-visibility power window outlines1m 17s
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New project archiving, restoring, and exporting options2m 10s
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Power bins in the Media Pool2m 33s
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Deinterlacing and 3:2 pulldown insertion In depth4m 55s
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Separate color space and gamma option1m 6s
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Bins: New sorting and tagging options3m 21s
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Conclusion44s
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