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In this movie, I'm going to begin talking about importing from a memory card, hard drive or from the camera itself. You can specify that Aperture always opens the Import Dialog automatically whenever a camera or memory card is connected by first going to Aperture, Preferences and in the pop-up by When a Camera is Connected, Open, make sure that you set it to Aperture. If you set it to no application or to a different application, then either you're going to have to choose the application manually or a different application will open. You want Aperture, you set it to Aperture. To open the Import Dialog manually, click the Arrow Icon by Import in the top left of the interface. If you've notice in the Preference to have Aperture open automatically to the Import Dialog when a memory card is the method, than this Import Window will appear by itself. Click on the Icon for your Card Reader and you'll see thumbnails appear of all the images on the card. I want to comment that the Import Window here is likely to look a bit different than what you see on your monitor and that there'll be considerably more space available for the thumbnail previews on your monitor. In order to make these movies, I had to decrease the resolution of my monitor, which results in less space for the thumbnails. Click on any of the images to get information about it, including its name, the date, type, size and dimensions. Next you need to choose whether you're going to import the image as a Managed File or as a Referenced File. If you want to begin by having Managed Files, then you need to choose in the Aperture Library. However, if you want to have Referenced Files, then I suggest you begin by going to Choose, then going to Pictures and creating a New Folder called Referenced Files. Then you'll be creating individual Folders within that Folder for each import. I recommend checking the Do Not Import Duplicates Option, but that's up to you. Under Subfolders, I choose Custom and then name the Folder the same thing that I will ultimately call the Project name. Since these are spring flowers, I'm going to call them Spring Flowers. Next I get to rename the images if I choose. You can leave them just as their Master File Name if you prefer not to rename them, but the camera-given name of N7937 isn't too descriptive to my way of thinking. But then I'm not sure that I like any of these particular Presets. I personally like to have the Custom Name plus the Master File Name. So I'm going to come down to Edit and where it says Custom, I'll click on it and I'll click Plus. And I'm going to rename this Custom Plus Master. And I'll come over here, click Delete to get rid of it and then I'm going to click on Custom Name and drag it up there and Master File Name and put it up there. You can put any of the elements up there that you choose to create your own naming convention. I'm going to leave Custom Name blank down here because I don't want the same Custom Name to appear all the time. I want to enter that each time I do an import so I'll click OK. Now you can see that I have the Preset, Custom Plus Master, and that will be there every time this Import Window opens up. For this series of images, I'm going to use the Custom Name Flowers and that will be applied to my Master File Names. In addition, there's an option to Adjust the Time for the images. Now, if you were shooting in a different time zone and forgot to set the time on your camera and I confess, I've never, ever set it on my camera, you can have Aperture make a time adjustment for you. Click the radio button to Adjust the Time Zone and then simply choose what time zone your camera is set to and the actual time zone where you were shooting. That's all there is to it. We'll continue talking about importing images in the next movie.