I am also working on making 4.5 Photo Album do what I want.
I have bulk uploads working and am working on the metadata stuff and
some other nice things. I will post a url here for people to take a look once I unbreak it again.
Ultimately what I want to do is get things to the point that my family can pick a set of
photos they want and I can automatically generate an iso image to burn
for them (or print the photos for them) and I want a clean workflow for all the digital
photos I take.
I don't have a camera that does avi's (or voice annotations) but I am
willing to make those work for people if someone provides me some test
files to work with.