Any developers here? How to programatically extract metadata from files..

In addition to its asset management and workflow automation features, I plan on using FCS to extensively tag media clips with 10-15 metadata fields. Are there any online guides that describe how the metadata is stored in the file? I need to write a script that can extract the metadata fields from these clips, but I'm not really sure where to begin.

The simplest way is to use the Write XML response. This outputs all the fields and their values associated with an asset to an XML file.
The other way is to us a Script response. If you know how to write a script (bash, perl, python, ruby, or anything else that is executable on the Mac hosting your installation of FCSvr), you simply leave open variables that match the fields you wish to extract and then call them within the script response's command parameters with your field names in square brackets. Apple has posted sample code on ADC.
Incidentally, the metadata for FCSvr is held in a PostgreSQL database. The media files themselves do not carry the metadata with them (except for some limited exceptions).

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