SVHS Deck comparisons

Don't know if any of you still use these, or would have knowledge on SVHS decks. But I was wondering what the difference between the Sony SLV-R5UC and the JVC S-VHS HR-S3800U was. Other than extra features one or the other may have. And despite both being SVHS, will the picture quality be any different?
I can get the Sony for $120, and the JVC for $40. I am planning to hook them up to my system via ADS Pyro A/V firewire link. And use FCP to capture the video, so I can transfer some VHS tapes to DVD. As well, I would like to use them to record TV segments, and transfer to DVD. Which one would suite my needs best?
Thanks

Eric,
A TBC (Time Base Corrector) cleans up or replaces the sync signal in analog video. Essentially it makes sure that each TV scan line starts at the right place and time so you don't get those wavy vertical lines so common in color-under formats like VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, 3/4", 8mm, Hi8 and BetaMax. A TBC is probably the best thing you can add to the signal path for overall image quality. Many stand alone TBCs also include proc amp controls for adjusting chroma, phase, contrast, brightness and YC delay (color shift predominant in red hues).
I understand about wanting to make chapters, menus, etc. Most of the current crop of DVD recorders have automatic chapter marks at preset intervals (10 min, 15 min, etc), although almost all of them will let you create a simple menu from them. And as I said above, if you get a model with a built-in hard drive, you can edit out segments you don't want before you burn to disc.
If you decide to go to tape with the TV programs, I would suggest going to a digital format ... use a Sony DSR-11 (or similar). With the large shell DV tapes you can get up to 3 hours per tape. The quality won't suffer from the generational and resolution loss of VHS/S-VHS.
-DH

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Good source for such a connector?
I'll be mastering video to 90/60 min. min-dv tapes recorded in both a camcorder and the SR-VC30U, and would rather use the deck rather than my camcorder as the playback unit to save wear on the camcorder. I also have numerous video tapes, VHS and SVHS, that I like to get into my imac as dv. I can also back up the min-DV mastering of events with a SVHS tape, and import that SVHS footage if the min-DV recording fails. Might even be a way to get better footage from DVDs, by looping through playback, than trying to rip from the recorded DVD.
One might even be able to loop through video and capture dv to the imac--checking with JVC about that and related questions--will report back...
Regards, Dale

JVC never answered my email questions. iapps confirmed that my basic assumptions were reasonable, however. So I ordered the items.
I have received and worked with the JVC SR-VC30U Combo DV/SVHS deck and it appears to be a versatile unit. You can dub from one format to the other, record input to both formats, play either format and have DV/Firewire output, and loop through input to digitize analog video for Firewire input into the imac. Haven't tried recording DV in to both formats yet.
Looping through playback from a recorded DVD, capturing, imovie, idvd, to burned DVD looked much better than ripping the original DVD with Cinematize and doing the same.
You have to control the deck manually--imovie will not control the functions (play, rewind, stop, etc) as you have with most DV camcorders, of course.
I've also found the Panasonic PV-GS500 to be compatible with imovie. You have to have it in playback mode, not PC mode. Also, there was some flicker in footage ran through imovie/idvd to burned DVD, particularly in transitions were there was movement in the video at time of transition. Some of that may have been related to stabilization so I've turned that off to see if it helps.
Dale

Anybody have the JVC SR-VS30U Mini-DV/SVHS deck?

I can get data from tapes to Final Cut via the firewire connection, but how do I go the other way? How can I play the timeline and have it record onto mini-dv or SVHS vis the firewire? There must be a setting on the deck I'm not seeing? Thanks!
(I dont have a manual)

Shut everything down
As suggested, run your FW cable from the puter to the front of the deck.
Turn the deck on. Make sure the DV button is lighted. Use the remote control to select Input F-1 (its the Channel + key)
Fire up the Mac and launch FCE. Make sure you have View>Video Out>Apple Firewire (NTSC or PAL) device set.
That should give you output from the Viewer or Timeline into the deck. When using the DV deck you should be able to play/record or use the Print to Tape function
If you want to play/record to the S-VHS side: On the deck, make sure Dub is selected for DV ... with the arrow pointing towards the VHS side. Now you should be able to play from the Timeline and Rec on the VHS side

Imac 27" . Canopus advc55 firewire in from SVHS tape. Either crashes Final Cut Pro X or has gaps in transfer when sync lost between camera shots.

I have been trying for a few days to dump my SVHS camera tapes to Final Cut Pro X. Using the Canopus ADVC55 encoder fed from a Panasonic SVHS video deck into iMac firewire. The picture appears on screen but will not save as an archive atall. Trying to import into an event has a little more success. When it comes across a section of tape between camera shots without sync it either crashes Final Cut or randomly picks up the replay later or trims the shots down by about a minute. Not sure what to do to let to allow it to import a tape complete with blank sections. I have a Panasonic SVHS deck with timebase correction on output, would this help maintain a constant sync signal for the ADVC55 and final cut pro? Very frustrating just trying to dump videos to digital.

Footnote to this problem. Put a Panasonic WJ-EV5 video mixer inline between deck and Canopus ADVC55 and this maintains the sync for perfect copies. If the red light on the ADVC55 comes on during the import to event sync has been lost and FCPX crashes or aborts the copy in various ways with unpredictable files.
The import to archive still will not store the data.
Maybe Final Cut authors can explain why import to event works but import to archive does not.
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Rules/Advice for use of FCE/iMovie

Reading through many posts seems I find some general rules of thumb not found elsewhere. Thanks in advance for all comments.
For serious video editing work and creation an external firewire HDD is needed, mainly to avoid dropped frames in either FCE or iMovie (iM). The new 20" iMac and external HDD (with 2 firewire connections, for the input device (DV camcorder or DV/SVHS deck) and to the iMac) should be able to run either FCE/iM.
I just did a 45 min project in iM with no noted dropped frames but likely would in much longer projects if I don't get the external drive?
Audio bit rate. Advice I read for iM is that without 16 bit audio the audio gets out of sync in long projects--does FCE also need 16 instead of 12? Not knowing this need, I've recorded a number of projects (with a DV deck and a DV camcorder) in 12--can I capture to the iMac/external HDD in 16 if I'm playing from a source tape that's 12?
Chapter Markers. Seems there are "Rules for Chapter Markers" that I won't repeat here but suspect they apply to both FCE/iM when used with iDVD. Do those rules apply when you use DVDStudio instead of iDVD? One rule I haven't seen yet is that one should likely not use the apply chapter markers option in iDVD as it could apply a marker that violates the "rules" and cause strange results in the DVD when played, right?
Any other rules or concerns I've missed--perhaps always max out on RAM even if its rather costly? What other basic tips or secrets should I know for editing with these products?
Dale

I'll just cover a couple of your points:
Hard drvies: Internal HDs are actually a better choice, overall, than external ones .... if you have the option to have a separate HD for your Scratch Disc. You should not be storing your meids (your video) on the same disc where FCE lives, in other words, your system disc. Also, space is important; you should never let your scratch disc (your media disc) get too full. I think the reccomendation is something like you should always have 25% of that disc free. So, if you can do that with an internal, go ahead; if not, an external is your only option
RAM: More RAM is good; if you can, I would go up to at least a Gig but this would be more for other apps or running multiple apps at the same time. I ran my G5 on 512mb RAM for a year with few probs (BTW, I'm a pro wedding editor) FCE performance is more determined by Processor speed than RAM anyway
Dropped frames: Lotsa reasons for this but some ways to avoid it is to not have a lot of sequences open at once, lowering your RT settings, not running programs in the background, etc
Audio: As Ian already suggested, the rule for bit rates in FCE is to keep it all the same, so even any music you import should be resampled as a AIFF that matches your sequence ie all 12 bit or all 16 bit. Frankly, I don't know why someone would shoot in 12 bit; it is a lower quality sample rate. Some peeps do it cuz their particular cam allows them to acces other audio tracks in 12 bit; audio tracks you probably wont be able to capture in FCE anyway. At any rate, just keep that sampling rate all the same and you should not have any probs with sync.
Another key point in FCE that when you do your final export, you have to mixdown your audio. From Edit, Select All then go Sequence>Render Only>Mixdown
Chapters: Basic rules for this in FCE is you can't have a chapter marker less than one second away from the beginning or end of your program. I think iMovie has probs if you place a chapter marker right on a transition; FCE is more forgiving but I tend not to do this too much, it doesn't look very neat in playback. When you set your chapter markers, don't forget to select the Chapter Marker option in the submenu and don't erase the <Chapter> heading: that does not show up in your export. When exporting, make sure nothing is selected in your timeline and use Export as Quicktime Movie and select Chapters from the pulldown

S-Video or BNC

Hi all -
I have a rack set up with a router for:
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-my MPEG encoding computer
The "router" I have now is a dinky, 4x4 Ocean Matrix OMX-9057. This is an S-Video switcher.
I've come to a point where I need more than a 4x4 switcher. I'm having a hard time finding anything more than 4x4 in S video format.
So my question to you all is, what do you think about going to BNC? Or do you have anything else you recommend? And, probably the larger question here, when I'm editing in FCP, would I REALLY notice a difference using BNC or S-Video if I captured something through my rack into FCP (say VHS or something)
Thanks for your thoughts...
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Svideo is more of a consumer connection. Although we all use it, most larger switchers will do much more than SVideo.
Svideo is nothing more than two BNCs - combined into one cute connection.
One set of the pins in an SVideo connector is the Chroma information - the other is the luminance.
You can buy breakout cables (usually called YC) to break the SVideo into both separate cables.
So, you could use a RGBHV switcher and just use two of the connections for SVideo. Or, you could use a RGB switcher and use two for svideo.
Composite is the combination of both of the separate signals in Svideo - combined into one connection.
Will you notice a difference - most people do on anything except VHS. You will notice that most VHS decks do not have an SVideo connection. Once we stepped into SuperVHS (SVHS) the technology allows the separation of the chroma and luminance - hence the Svideo connection.
We use the JVC SVHS deck - that has firewire i/o. This contains audio and video - without needing any additional analog to digital interface. You can also print back out to VHS/SVHS over firewire.
http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/features.jsp?featureid=01&tree=&itempath=null&modelid=MDL101333
It's not the best editing deck - but it does work well with firewire device control.
The benefit of using an RGBHV or RGB switcher is that you might use if for switching other - higher quality sources.

Rules for iMovie/FCE/iDVD

Reading through many posts seems I find some general rules of thumb not found elsewhere. Thanks in advance for all comments.
For serious video editing work and creation an external firewire HDD is needed, mainly to avoid dropped frames in either FCE or iMovie (iM). The new 20" iMac and external HDD (with 2 firewire connections, for the input device (DV camcorder or DV/SVHS deck) and to the iMac) should be able to run either FCE/iM.
I just did a 45 min project in iM with no noted dropped frames but likely would in much longer projects if I don't get the external drive?
Audio bit rate. Advice I read for iM is that without 16 bit audio the audio gets out of sync in long projects--does FCE also need 16 instead of 12? Not knowing this need, I've recorded a number of projects (with a DV deck and a DV camcorder) in 12--can I capture to the iMac/external HDD in 16 if I'm playing from a source tape that's 12?
Chapter Markers. Seems there are "Rules for Chapter Markers" that I won't repeat here but suspect they apply to both FCE/iM when used with iDVD. Do those rules apply when you use DVDStudio instead of iDVD? One rule I haven't seen yet is that one should likely not use the apply chapter markers option in iDVD as it could apply a marker that violates the "rules" and cause strange results in the DVD when played, right?
Any other rules or concerns I've missed--perhaps always max out on RAM even if its rather costly? What other basic tips or secrets should I know for editing with these products?
Dale

"..The new 20" iMac and external HDD (with 2 firewire connections, for the input device (DV camcorder or DV/SVHS deck) and to the iMac) should be able to run either FCE/iM.."
This may not be true if you're trying to connect a Canon camcorder to the Mac at the same time as an external hard disc: Canons like to have the FireWire circuit all to themselves, and so you may need to do it in two steps with a Canon ..capture to the internal hard disc, then unplug the Canon, plug in the external disc and transfer the movie clips across to the external, and then use that for editing. This doesn't affect Sonys, which happily work with other FW devices connected to the system. I don't know about Panasonics and other brands (..I haven't tried my Panny with an external disc connected, and am in too much of a hurry at the moment to try it. Maybe later today..)
"..can I capture to the iMac/external HDD in 16 if I'm playing from a source tape that's 12?.."
No ..FireWire's a digital connection system, so what goes in at one end (..12-bit source tape..) is exactly what's captured at the other end (..iMac/external HDD in 16..)
One way to convert would be to play your source video into another camcorder through analogue (RCA) connections, with the 2nd camcorder set to record in 16-bit ..or use some other device which accepts an analogue signal IN, and provides a digital signal OUT. That'll recapture the sound in 16-bit, and it can then be transferred into your Mac in 16-bit. But the video may be degraded a little, and it's rather long-winded.
It may be that, once imported as 12-bit, GarageBand can convert 12-bit audio into 16-bit ..I don't know: I'm not that familiar with GarageBand, sorry..
Just try testing your 12-bit audio in iMovie or FCE first ..some people have no difficulties with it ..others do. (..That may depend on whether you're using only your original 12-bit audio, or if you're also trying to mix it with 16-bit audio within the movie project..)
However, note that - once again - Canons are quirky. Because of the way that their own particular internal 12-bit timing runs, Canon-shot 12-bit tapes may give the audio drifting out-of-sync a little on single clips which are longer than 20 minutes. This shouldn't be apparent on ordinary short clips, but if you've shot, say, a school play or concert as a single take on a Canon in 12-bit audio mode, the audio may slowly go out of sync after 20 mins, and would need correcting in iMovie or FCE.
Can't comment on Chapter Markers in DVD Studio vs. iDVD ..I've never had any trouble with Chapter Markers.
"..always max out on RAM.." ..more RAM usually helps; the most noticeable improvement is when jumping up from, say, 256MB to anything above that. The next jump, from 512MB to 1GB is also useful, but doesn't provide such a spectacular improvement as that first increase. More RAM generally means that your Mac has less need to swap things from RAM to "virtual memory" on your hard disc, so less "disc thrashing" as material's repeatedly swapped back and forth, and greater speed of access if you're not constantly reading to and writing from the hard disc.
Fitting a second internal disc, in Macs which can take it, and putting your movie project on that ..or on an external disc, as you suggest.. also relieves "disc thrashing" and any instances of the OS trying to get access to the hard disc at the same time as the movie program wants access.
To stop any delays in accessing an external hard disc, as soon as you've reformatted it to 'Mac OS Extended' (..using Disk Utility..) then open System Prefs, and the 'Spotlight' preference, and then click the 'Privacy' tab, and drag the external disc's icon into the big square space which is labelled "Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations". That stops Spotlight indexing every video clip which you import onto the external disc, which can slow down disc access.
The cup-of-tea icon is a good thing to click on every now and again, in both iMovie and FCE. That lets you stop editing for a while, have tea and biscuits, and come back refreshed, with new ideas..!

VHS/Hi8 capture - futureproof workflow advice

I have a massive project on my hands.... I have hundreds of VHS tapes and tens of Hi8 tapes I want to convert to digital form. For the past several years, I've been meaning to get around to this project, and have accumulated quite a bit of hardware and software. I've read a ton of formus and blogs on the topic, and quite a few questions were answered, but was hoping to get some advice from people who've done this and have some retrospective advce.
Here is my list of software/hardware
MBP i7 with 10.7.2 (will prob downgrade to 10.6 for this for canopus software reasons)
JVC HR-S7800U SVHS deck (with TBC)
Sony RDR-VX500 VHS/DVD combo recorder
Canopus ADVC-300
Sony Hi8 Camera (S-Video Out)
Sony HVR-A1U HDV camera
Blu-Ray Burner - will put in external case for use with MBP)
Final Cut Pro 7
Final Cut Pro X
I have many questions and would really like advice on setting up a workflow to capture these tapes. I want to futureproof this collection, meaning I want to capture the best uncompressed video possible while at the same time not becoming wed to Final Cut or Apple-only formats (a la FCP7->X issues). Remember realmedia was really neat about 15 years ago???
What capture format is the best:
Uncompressed 8-bit NTSC 48kHz or Uncompressed 10-bit NTSC 48kHz
Anyone optimize the hardware setting on the ADVC-300? I wanted to just capture without the canopus software to make everythign consistent. Where do I put all the dip switches?
IRE 0 or 7.5
Video Audio adjust on or off
Chroma filter on or off
External or Internal vide sync mode
Thank you very much!!

Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz
Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz
Not a forum expert here, however I completed a very similar project your are describing here. Very tedious and had its issues and challenges.
Here are a few things you should think about. One of the big issues with VHS format is that it is analog and has no timecode as found on modern dv tape based and file based cameras. Is this important to you? To me it was a big factor in utilizing it with other NLE suites down the road.
What I did was to capture/record each hour of vhs to minidv tape to create an archival copy with timecode and 48khz audio, then capture with FCP. In addition to timecode and ability to cleanly log and transfer clips, the audio track will be compatible upon capture in FCP. Batch Capturing of non digital tape may (or "will" is a better term here) create audio drift and other audio issues.
I would recommend doing the same with the Hi8 tapes.
If you proceed without the above process and just batch capture directly, do some research on the camera that was used to record the tapes you are working with. The audio track recordings vary widely from camera to camera and a become issue which must be addressed in altering sequence and capture presets in FCP.
I know recapturing dv essentially "doubles" work but down the road you will always have digital tape archival backups which can be easily recaptured if necessary. Use quality tape. I made sure my dvtape deck heads were clean before and during the transfer and upon FCP capture there appeared to be absolutely no generational "loss" of video or audio quality.
As Studio X answered above, DV file format stored in your project file on scratch disk for FCP will be fine for most NLE suites in the future. Just remember to back up your scratch drive on site and off site.
Hope this helps and good luck!

Loss of colour in transfer of analog video to iMovie.

Using an ADVC110 converter in transferring analog video from VCR to iMovie,
the video conversion was successful but no clour just black and white.
I used a S-Video cable from VCR to ADVC110 and firwire from ADVC110 to computer. Any help appreciated.
Eric.

Check your cables and device settings.
Most VHS decks support only composite video and using a s-video cable produces B&W image.
SVHS decks can be configured to output composite or s-video via the same SCART connector. Outputting composite to a s-video input produces B&W image.

Old analogue recordings, bad vertical sync

I am struggling with some old VHS recordings. When played on a TV they look fine, but when imported by DV equipment (DV camera, either recording or passthrough to iMovie) things get jerky. I assume that this is due to bad quality of the original recording, and that the DV camera simply doesn't always understands that a new frame is beginning, and thus it duplicates the previous frame.
The suspicion is strenthened by the existence of an analogue copy of fragments of this tape. That copy was made ten years ago on professional analogue equipment that synced the whole thing anew.
So, I've tried to run the VHS signal (from the original tape) through an old "video stabilizer" (Macro 2000) that I found in a cupboard of mine. It is supposed to regenerate the sync signal, but alas, it didn't help me.
Is there anything I can do, apart from visiting the local TV station and ask them to help?
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Have you tried to adjust the deck heads?
A VHS deck with a timebase corrector TBC might also help. Some SVHS decks have such a feature and maybe some higher-end VHS decks, too.
But even TBC may not do miracles if the tape is bad. So you might want to consult the profs or the TV station, too.
Just make sure you don't spoil the old tape!

Sigh. FCE woes yet again...

Hi
Once again I find I am having FCE troubles. last night, i set up an 83 minute miniDV cassette w/ in and out capture points, and FCE was on its way. When I came back to check it, I got the "dropped frames during l;ast capture attempt" message, the timecode was around 1:02, so the tape was almost finished. It could have been a prob with the cassette...
Then I got the autosave error and a 34-type general error message. I was too tired to deal with it so I closed down FCE and called it a night. Came back this morning, now FCE is unexpectedly quitting...AGAIN. THis has happened approx 4 times this week... I then trashed the prefs and repaired permissions... then it would work, then it would come back...like now.
So, I am just about to go thru the trashing prefs again, but what is going on? I haven't had this problem at all during the 1 year I've had FCE HD...until just a few weeks ago.
What can be done to prevent the problem?
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Nope. 83-minute length panasonic PQ cassette in SP, shot on a canon XL-2. I am Using a JVC combo miniDV/SVHS deck, the SR-VS30. It's connected via a belkin firewire cable, which is either on the system firewire bus or the belkin firewire bus (not sure which); either way, it's on its own bus.
I was able to get the tape to capture again, and am now editing, but I am not quite sure the unexpected quits and general errors will go away for good.
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B

Audio Sync from SVHS capture

okay, my head is about to explode. We have captured about 8 hours of SVHS footage using an AJA IOLa, using the DV/NTSC preset, 29.97fps, audio at 48K, no one can remember if we set it for non-drop or drop frame. The problem we have is that the audio drifts out of sync very badly. Any ideas?
BTW, running 10.4.8, 5.1.2, everything is up to date on this machine(G5 DP, 1.5 gigs, G-Raids, etc.).
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Any idea why this is happening?< </div>
You can search here for hundreds of threads on drifting audio. The causes are way too numerous to attempt to diagnose from where I sit but here are some.
The problem is usually caused by your transcoding or input system. If you are patching your VHS into a DV camcorder and coming in on FW, things should stay locked. If your deck is from Canon, you have a BIG probme right there and you must use my method to make the clips the same length. Canon's DV codec is non-standard. You can easily correct the issue with my previous post by rendering the audio.
If you are coming in through a capture card, you need to talk to the mfr of the card.
The other question is why are you trying to bring that much material into FCP? Try dubbing it to a DV tape and capture only what you need.
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I will kick myself later for this...... but I have a Power Mac G5 and a DV/SVHS player trying to hook it up together. I need a 4 pin to 6 pin DV cable right?? Or are there any other suggestions??? Thank you in advance.....

The G5 has a 6 pin connector so you either need a 4 pin to 6 pin or 6 pin to 6 pin cable depending on the connection on the deck.

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I have an original decklink HD capture card with SDI I/O. I have a rented Sony HDCAM F500 deck for the weekend. I can not get FCP to digitize even a frame. All my QT, FCP, OSX and Decklink software is up to date and compatible with one another acording to Decklink's website.
The capture tool shows no video input. I am conecting via SDI from the HD output of the deck to the SDI input on the card, the capture settings are set to the HD format I need to work in, 23.98 PsF. I get the error mesage when I select the setting I want: Unable to locate the capture device Blackmagic HDTV 1080. Your system config may have changed or your deck/camera may be disconnected or turned off.
The system will work in SD using the downconvert output of the deck, but this does me no good on this job. I hope someone has experience with this problem and can help because I am out of ideas!

sorry mate, if I was in the office I would try to help troubleshoot this thing, but here at home its a bit pointless.
other than suggesting you check that you really do have an Declink HD card an not the Declink SD card, or th epossiblity the card may be faulty, the best I can offer is to point you to the Decklink forum at the Cow.
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newviewposts.cgi?forumid=124
have you tried to capture any other HD flavour with this card? how about capturing via the downcoverted SD and using the card to upconvert to HD? (this is not a suggested workflow, just trying to ascertain whether the card is working in HD at all)

Report for Comparison of Material Qty

Hi All,
I need to Develop an Interactive report for Comparison of Material Qty. ordered through Purchase requisition, ordered material through PO and corresponding Material Receipt report.
Can Someone Give a brief description about this & fields tcode & tables regarding this report.A sample code would be much appreciated.
Thanks & regards,
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To get the material number combined with the PO text you will need the help of an ABAP programmer. The programmer can create a report for you using the function module READ_TEXT in the function group STXD. The tables to use are:
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