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| Getting Started | |
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| The Methodology | |
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| Copying the Lesson Files | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Resources | |
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| About the Apple Pro Training Series | |
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| Apple Pro Certification Program | |
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| Tiger Basic Project: Using the Basic Configuration | |
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| Preparing Your First DVD Project | |
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| DVD Creation Process | |
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| The DVD-Video Specification | |
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| Exploring the Interface | |
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| Creating a Simple DVD in Basic View | |
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| Creating a Menu | |
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| Connecting Assets to the Menu | |
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| Simulating a Disc | |
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| Building a Project and Burning a Disc | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Exploring the Full Interface | |
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| Opening the Project | |
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| Exploring Window Configurations | |
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| Adjusting the Project | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Swiss Project: Creating a Simple DVD | |
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| Setting Up a Simple DVD | |
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| Storyboarding Your DVD | |
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| Creating the Swiss Storyboard Using the Graphical Tab | |
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| Previewing the Finished Project with Apple's DVD Player | |
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| Identifying Source Video Settings | |
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| Setting DVD Studio Pro Preferences | |
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| Setting Up Disc Properties | |
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| Importing Video and Audio Files | |
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| Setting Chapter Markers | |
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| Simulating Your Project | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Creating Menus Within DVD Studio Pro | |
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| The Menu Creation Process | |
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| Importing Assets | |
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| Adding a Background Graphic | |
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| Creating Buttons on a Still Menu | |
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| Making Connections from Buttons to Video | |
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| Using the Title Safe Feature | |
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| Adding Title and Text to the Menu | |
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| Adding Sound to the Menu | |
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| Creating an Intro Menu | |
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| Setting Up Navigation on Your DVD | |
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| Changing the Still Menu into a Motion Menu | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Creating a Chapter Index Menu | |
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| Customizing a Default Chapter Index Menu | |
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| Setting Up the Chapter Index Navigation Buttons | |
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| Completing the Customized Chapter Index Menu Template | |
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| Automating the Chapter Index Menu Creation Process | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Creating a Slideshow | |
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| File Formats for Slideshows | |
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| Adding a Slideshow | |
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| Modifying Your Slideshow | |
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| Slideshow Transitions | |
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| Converting a Slideshow to a Track | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Adding Subtitles | |
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| Creating Subtitles in DVD Studio Pro | |
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| Modifying the Font and Color of Subtitles | |
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| Importing Subtitles from a Text File | |
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| Previewing Subtitles | |
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| Creating Buttons over Video | |
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| About Closed Captioning | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| DVD-ROM Content and DVD@ccess | |
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| Adding DVD-ROM Content to a DVD-Video Disc | |
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| Creating a Web Link with DVD@ccess | |
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| Activating DVD-ROM Content with DVD@ccess | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Finishing Your DVD | |
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| Testing Your Project | |
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| Building and Formatting a DVD | |
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| Using the Apple DVD Player | |
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| Burning a Disc Using the Burn Command | |
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| Choosing Recordable DVD Media | |
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| Distribution of Your Completed DVD | |
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| Designing Disc Labels and DVD Case Inserts | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Tiger Project: Creating a Complex DVD | |
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| Introduction to Encoding | |
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| Bit Budgeting | |
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| Using Compressor to Encode a File | |
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| Creating a Preset | |
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| Creating a Compressor Droplet | |
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| Encoding Using A.Pack | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Creating Menus with Overlays | |
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| The Tiger DVD Project | |
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| Playing the Tiger DVD with DVD Player | |
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| Creating Menus with a Simple Overlay | |
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| Creating Menus with Advanced Overlays | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Working with Markers and Stories | |
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| Working with Chapter Markers | |
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| Creating Markers in Final Cut Pro | |
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| Working with Markers in DVD Studio Pro | |
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| Using Stories as Playlists | |
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| Creating a Story with Multiple Markers | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Connections and Basic Scripting | |
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| Assembling the Tiger Project | |
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| Establishing Connections | |
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| Creating a Menu Loop Script | |
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| Adding Random Play Commands | |
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| Connecting the Script to the Menu | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Black Box Project: Advanced Authoring Techniques | |
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| Advanced Menu Design | |
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| The Two Types of Menus | |
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| Creating a New Menu in Photoshop | |
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| A Closer Look at Standard Menus | |
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| Refreshing Assets | |
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| Advanced Menu Audio | |
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| Using Motion Menus | |
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| Creating Layered Menus | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Creating Menu Elements | |
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| Drop Zones vs. Buttons | |
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| Introducing Shapes | |
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| Creating Drop Zone Shapes | |
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| Creating Button Shapes | |
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| Creating Styles | |
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| Round-Trips to LiveType | |
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| Creating a Menu Template | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Creating Transitions | |
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| Applying a Transition | |
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| Using a Video Transition | |
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| Using Alpha Transitions | |
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| Exploring the Asset Movie | |
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| Exploring the Background Matte Movie | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Advanced MPEG Encoding | |
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| Setting Up | |
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| Choosing Quality Settings | |
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| Examining GOP Structures | |
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| Previewing Compression Settings | |
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| Setting Markers in Compressor | |
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| Cropping Video | |
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| Adding the Encoded File to Your Project | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Using Alternate Angles | |
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| Setting Up the Project | |
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| About Alternate Angles | |
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| Creating Multi-Angle Tracks | |
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| Creating Mixed-Angle Tracks | |
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| Targeting Alternate Angle Streams | |
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| Simulating Alternate Angle Streams | |
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| About Alternate Angle Errors | |
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| Exploring Final Cut Pro Cut Markers | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Audio Encoding | |
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| Audio Formats for DVD-Video | |
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| Using Digital Audio Files in DVD Studio Pro | |
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| About AC-3 Files | |
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| A.Pack Overview | |
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| About Dialog Normalization | |
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| Understanding Compression Profiles | |
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| Surround Sound and Downmixing | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Scripting | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Scripting Basics | |
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| Programming the Title Button | |
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| Scripting Audio Streams | |
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| Checking Aspect Ratio | |
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| Checking Parental Level | |
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| Using Jump Indirect | |
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| What You've Learned | |
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| Creating a Motion Menu in Final Cut Pro | |
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| Bit Budgeting | |
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| How a Bit Budget Works | |
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| Making a Bit Budget | |
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| Round-Trip Production | |
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| Content Creation Workflows with Apple's Professional Applications | |
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| Editing | |
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| Effects and Graphics | |
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| Music and Audio | |
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| Delivery | |
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| Workgroup Collaboration | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |