Looking for photo viewing software that displays comments with picture in a slideshow

[Virumo]

I have a picture hierarchy split into several folders. Person A, Person B, Person C, etc. I'm looking for a photo viewer that will display play in a slideshow, and with each picture display the file name, and also the comments and date taken information from the files metadata (under the details tab). The comments are rarely more than a couple lines, I'd be okay with a solution that doesn't work well with verbose comments.

Because a lot of this data is about to be entered manually, I'm okay with a solution that doesn't use file metadata, as long as during the slideshow each picture can be given a title, with some smaller text accompanying it, and the date on a separate line. In this situation it would probably be fine to have the date included in the comments, though I'd prefer a discrete entry box for it, in order to not forget it.

In any case, the title, comments, and date should all be together either above or below the picture, and not some below and some above.

Edit: bonus points if videos can go into the slideshow too.

 

[jhansman]

Don't know if it will do all that, but Proshow Gold is about as complete a slideshow solution as you could ask for. Check it out and see: http://www.photodex.com/proshow/gold

 

[pyonir]

You can display text with Irfanview's slideshow feature. To see the options open Irfanview, choose File > Slideshow Right in the middle of the dialog window is "Show Text" and if you click the Help button it gives you the options available.

A quick look and I see you can display the time/date taken, file name, file location, and it says "JPG/Webshots image comment, if available". I'm not sure if that's the comments taken from the metadata or not.

Worth a look at least, since it's a free program. http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[jkauff]

If you have a recent version of PowerPoint, create a Photo Album and import it into a presentation with the Use Existing Slides command. You'll have to enter the text manually, but it sounds like you plan to do that anyway.