I have been using zen for mainly just a photo gallery, and have used my own coding for a video gallery. I like the ease of navigation of the photo gallery and with the .flv support it would be a lot easier to add content using zen. As i right now i have to modify 2 scripts just to add a video. But I have run into a the problem of not seeing a way to add descriptions in the gallery itself for the videos. I want my users to at least have some idea besides the thumbnail what they are about to be watching. I am new to php and webdesign in genereal but a quick learner, my site is pyrosys.com look at the video gallery to see what i am trying to do. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Zenphoto treats videos as if they were images. So you can add a description to them on the admin backend. Please take a look at our theming tutorial to learn how Zenphoto themes work. Also there is a function documentation available.

I have been staring at the guides and am really getting no where. As far a theme i see how to change layouts and what not but i really have no idea what file i am even trying to change here. I just want the description i add in the admin to show up with the thumbnail in the gallery, not just once the person clicks the thumb to view the video. I know it shouldn't be a hard modification but I don't know where to start.

Well, it's actually all told in the theming tutorial... Anyway, just add printImageDesc() to your theme's album.php's next_image() loop which shows the thumbnails.