I would like to make slide shows with selectable subtitles.

The subtitles should be generated from the "Image Description" or "User Comment" as contained in the EXIF (Exchangeable Image File ) tag in the .jpg file. I found an option in Ulead DVD Picture Show to add a description by hand. These titles however get merged into the .mpg file, instead of true selectable subtitles..

I found exiftags (Linux) that extracts the "Image Description" from a .jpg file. I could write some scripts to generate a text file. From what I read from other postings, the usual path appears to be:
1. convert .txt to .srt using Subtitle Studio
2. convert .srt to .sup using srt2sup
3. import the .sup in IfoEdit.

The other path that I see, is to use ACDSee in slideshow mode and record the svideo output on a Camcorder. That would be straightforward, but sacrifice qualify.

Is it me, or is there a simpler way of accomplishing this?

thanks for your time