How to create a "plugin"?

I have a Perl script that I run on EDL files. How do I create a plugin to execute it from within FCP? I would like it to:
1. Create an EDL from a sequence.
2. Execute the Perl script on the EDL file.
3. Import the edited EDL file back into FCP.
4. If possible, reconnect the media files.
I'm a total newbie when it comes to developing plugins. The FCP documentation mentions something about AppleScript but there's typically nothing about how to use it.
thanks,
Scott

The FCP documentation mentions something about AppleScript but there's typically nothing about how to use it.
If you are thinking to create effects, transitions, generators there is some documentation on how to use the most accessible and probably easiest tool to write plugins for FCP, I am currently using it:
[Creating FX scripts with FX Builder|http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Conceptual/U sing_FXScript/UsingFXScript.pdf]
This document alone without some good practice, discipline and most of all ideas is useless.
There's no better way to start learning how to create plugins for FCP with FXBuilder than dissecting and analyzing other scripts (many effects shipped with FCP can be viewed and even modified by control clicking their name in the browser and choose open in editor).
Here some more resources, which have been and continue to be very useful to me, hope they help you too:
http://www.fxscriptreference.org/
http://joemaller.com/fcp/
G.
G.

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