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oh it's like a weird really bad ASMR
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video ed from beating microphones here
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and today we are doing a different kind
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of sound 101 we're actually out on
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location at the UCLA School of theater
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film and television and Eric here is a
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post-production lecturer you actually
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specialize in sound though right I do so
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Eric is gonna help us out today with ADR
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what it is what it's about how they do
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it and all the other needy gritty stuff
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when it comes to fixing our mess-ups so
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what exactly is ADR well ADR stands for
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automated dialogue replacement but some
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people are calling it additional
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dialogue recording which makes a lot
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more sense because not that automated
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now is it it's not so automated now why
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would I use ADR for my film well there
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are several reasons one is that you've
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got a poor recording of your dialogue
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happens yeah exactly it could be for
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technical reasons related to the
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equipment but it could also be the
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environment in which you're recording
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you're shooting with a wind machine a
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generator you're using equipment that's
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causing this noise that you can't get
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rid of is the image going to take the
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priority over the sound and if you do
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that from the start you're going to have
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to plan on doing ADR and then also there
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may be some performance issues that you
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want to adjust in post
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absolutely also I've had to do is they
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will change the dialogue altogether and
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do an over-the-shoulder shot to kind of
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make it so we can now have a new line
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added to the movie or not sit down pal
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come on don't be an Deckard I've
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got four skin jobs walking streets right
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and that's that additional kind of
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dialogue that you're talking exactly you
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do it for story reason is you want to
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improve the scene so now that we're
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getting into the nitty-gritty part of
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ADR what exactly do we need to get in
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order to pull off an ADR session well
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you need a way to capture the sound so a
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microphone then you need somehow to
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record that sound so we can playback the
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picture and record in sync to that
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picture and then an interface so you can
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connect that microphone to the computer
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and some software which will allow you
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to record their lines in sync in the
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picture I think actually in premiere now
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you can actually hit a record button and
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actually do ADR session you directly in
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premiere so if you are looking for a
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budget option premiere will work so now
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that we know what we're gonna do and we
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know what we're gonna be doing it on
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let's go take a look at Night of the
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Living Dead once again and this time a
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little ADR for it great let's do it so
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I've set my Pro Tools for the proper
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input mic input I've also placed beeps
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in here we don't have streamers which
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are a visual way of seeing when the cue
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is going to occur but beeps work well to
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the movie not only has its own track in
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Pro Tools but it's also being sent to a
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monitor in addition I have this Pro
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Tools set up so that we have pre-roll
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which means that we won't just simply
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start with the beeps and then there's a
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line we're going to go back and you can
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set the pre-roll to whatever amount you
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want whatever the actor needs to get
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back into that space that they were in
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then the actor is gonna be what in the
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back booth over here that's right
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because we have this board that has a
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talkback button the director can sit
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here and speak to the actor right and
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the actor can hear the director over
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headphones so we know what we've got all
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set up now let's take a look what you've
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got queued up for us today okay so
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here's the scene from Night of the
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Living Dead
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they're coming to get you Barbara
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stop it so that's the line in this case
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you're not the actor who did the line
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that makes it harder because it's not
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the way you normally would speak it's
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not your rhythm the actor you bring in
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will have an easier time because they
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did the line originally the calling the
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getting shoe Barbara let's go mess this
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up great let's have some fun get those
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headphones on all right all right you're
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all set to go here wonderful okay so
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we're gonna do this line and I'm just
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going to run one rehearsal how's that
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for you
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sounds good to me I need a lizard okay
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now one thing we could do is record the
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rehearsal because often you find out the
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rehearsal is a good take so they're
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coming again we're calling it a
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rehearsal where we're going to go into
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record okay here we go okay
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they're coming to get you Barbara
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all right you know what Andrew I
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actually recorded that did you yeah
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let's play it back okay bye my one take
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wonder no no I suck I totally suck
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it still sounds like me is the problem I
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feel exactly like I did during the Foley
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episode completely fish out of water
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okay well let's do another tank
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duh coming to get you Barbra
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all right let's play that one back and
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I'm going to mute the guide and the
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beeps okay okay I think that's
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definitely workable
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I'm workable all right so I just queued
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up the beeps for the next line and I
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muted your previous line so you're not
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gonna hear yourself when we go back in
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the pre-roll okay you would just hear
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the guide track the calming for you
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Barbara let's see if it works because
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we're on the back of his head you don't
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have to really worry about sink Tommy
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for you Barbara oh it's like a weird
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really bad ASMR video so Andrew why
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don't you come back out here and we'll
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work with those lines oh good okay so
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now we've got your line and we can take
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your line and compare it to the guide
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track so there's a little bit short but
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how about let's see about they're having
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you get starts here in your line and it
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starts in there so let's do this we're
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going to extend this line but I'm just
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gonna
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if I can stretch that out don't tell me
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to get you Barbra okay so they're coming
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to get you call me Nick get you ball
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what we can do is we can put
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equalization on this to make it seem
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like you're a little further away so we
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could roll off some of the base
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frequencies yeah because in that room
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close to that mic we're gonna pick up so
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now we're thinning out his voice now we
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could add a tiny bit of reverb because
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this room is very dry that we're
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recording in which is fine because now
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we can add as much reverb as we need to
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let me take it down to like 10% and then
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we're gonna add ambience ignorant child
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all right so we are gonna have to go to
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the second line and do some more EQ
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enforce ound what the first person yeah
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once you start to add all the extra
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sound effects and if you add a
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background track in music you can
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actually get ADR some very very close to
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the real thing
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what's a budget option well one
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possibility is to get a unit like this
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little unit here the Focusrite you can
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use this with premiere Media Composer
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with Pro Tools and actually it's it's a
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very nice system that will give you
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professional quality audio if you want
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to just experiment a little bit before
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you invest anything you can actually
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record without whatever program premiere
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you do composer Pro Tools by selecting
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your built-in microphone as the
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microphone that you're going to use for
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recording you can do that you can create
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your own beeps you can use a tone and
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cut it up and make a file that'll be a
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three-second file for ADR and and just
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practice a little bit before you buy
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anything thank you Eric for having us
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this has been eye-opening at home
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we didn't know about half these tools
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and now that we know about them I think
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we're all gonna go out and learn more
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about how to do this kind of stuff
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you're welcome my pleasure
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