Metadata On Mac's

Hi Apple Users. I feel like I'm behind enemy lines... but I'm hoping you guys can help me out.
I'm an I.S Tech at a company in New York, and have recently been delegated to be the "Mac Guy," even though I come from a totally Windows background. My company does a lot of dvd authoring and graphic design, all done on macs. We store these video files on removable media.
I have figured out the way for the PC's and Macs to talk over our Server 2003 network (see each other, share files...). We are using a disk cataloging software that can see the Mac drives and document the files that are on them. However, my problem lies in the fact that a) I cannot find the tools to edit the metadata of any file on a mac, and b) When windows looks at this metadata, it cannot see things like comments, author and other important fields like that.
Does anyone have any suggestions that would help me out?
Thanks guys! (FYI, I could be falling in love with OSX...)
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The problem is not getting the data, as they are all media files. The problem is getting the data about the data... the metadata about the files.
I've looked at software as my last option, but still have yet to find any software that will do what I want- edit the meta data in a Macintosh based file, then have the meta data survive when I transfer the file from the Macintosh to a PC.
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Am 14.05.2012 um 13:49 schrieb FrankBiederich:
Re: Bridge CS6 Mac XMP File Info Panel Bug: can't copy and paste metadata
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Thanks for your report; we'll look into it.
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