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In this movie, we're going to talk about creating a Custom Metadata Preset or View to use. We've already seen that there are numerous ways to view various subsets of the Metadata, mostly using Presets that are defaults from Aperture. However, it's quite possible you'd like to create your own Presets using different combination of information. For example, perhaps you'd like to see the image Name, Ratings, Badges and Keywords on an image in the Viewer and maybe on Import you'd like to add your basic contact and copyright information along with some initial Keywords and possibly some other information. To do so, you need to create Custom Views and Presets. Let's talk first about creating a View of Metadata that would have the Name and the Rating, but also Badges and Keywords. Aperture has the default Name and Ratings, so we'll begin with that and then I'm going to go into Other and I'll put a checkmark by Badges and notice I had a checkmark by Rating and Name because the name of this particular Preset is Name and Ratings so those were chosen by default. So now I have the Badges selected and I also want to add Keywords. I'll come over to Keyword, check Include in Summary and now this View that's called Name and Ratings actually also has my Badges and Keywords information. Let's make it be visible in the Viewer. We'll come back up to Aperture, Preferences and in the Viewer we'll have it show Name and Ratings and lo and behold, there are the Ratings, there are the Badges, the Name and the Keywords. I think that that's a very useful set of information to have in the Viewer. Now, on Import you might want to have an entirely different view that Aperture hasn't offered as a default at all. So let's come over to the Action Pop-Up Menu in the Metadata Inspector and choose New View. When we do so, we get the option to Create a Name. So I'm going to create the Name Import so it'll tell me that this is what I want to use for my Import Metadata. And I'll click OK. When I do so, it's automatically selected in the pop-up menu and it's actually been added to the list already. But there's no information in there initially so I'm going to add the information that I want to have appear there. I'll choose my Byline, City, Contact Information, Copyright Notice, Country Name. Now, you can choose different information if you want. I'll also choose Keywords. But for the Preset I don't want the specific Keywords in there so I'll Select and Delete them. And I'm going to come down here and I'm going to put a checkmark by Special Instructions as well. That can come in handy when you want to add a bit of information about the image that you might not want to include as a Keyword. In order to have these blank fields remain in your Preset, you need to add a Place Holder. So I typically add a comma and that will maintain it as a Place Holder. You might be wondering how come the information was already loaded for me. It was loaded because I've use it before, but I can come down to any of these areas and by clicking on the information, it becomes highlighted and you can type in whatever information you want. Once you type it in, as a matter of fact, let's just add one. Let's add the Country Code. If I type it in up here, 011, and then come down here to Country Code and click, you'll see that it's been added as a Preset in the fields down here. Similarly, if I clicked on it down here and if I Delete it and change it to 013, then it will automatically be changed up here to 013. Now, in fact, it's 011 but I don't want it to appear, but just to make sure I don't have bad information, I'm going to take it out there as well. So far what I've done is to create an Import View. If I want to save the information that I typed in here that's already loaded as a Preset, I need to come over to the Action Pop-Up Menu and choose Save as Preset. I can give it the same name of Import and click OK. It will be visible in the Import Interface. You can also use this same Action Pop-Up to manage the views and get rid of any views or Presets that you don't need. Just to show you quickly, in the Import Dialog down here, if we choose Add Metadata from our Import Preset, and not just the View, then the options that we put in are here, including spaces for Special Instructions and Keywords; a very handy way to work.