Metadata over video

Metadata is a key of FCP X's feature!
On metada holding info from camera (name, timecode and other EXIF info), additional data like scene, take, camera angle, also keywords and roles!
But how i can publsih some metadata on video? For example timecode from clip (generator timecode don't work correct) and clip filename? May be in Text Generator have some special chars like @F for filename?

Dear Jeffery,
Thanks for the response. There is a system using Small Tree card/switch with Tiger MetaLAN, was looking to see if there was a way to utilize OSX server & XSAN over GigE. Based on your response, this isn't possible. At a topologic level, you can attached workstations via ethernet alone to an XSAN system, I am attempting to put low bandwidth video over those ethernet only workstations. Mass storage would be via PCIe controller card (via mini SAS, eSATA or other), not fiber. Goal is to leverage OSX server, XSERVE and ethernet to create a client pathway to XRAID and fiber, a full blown XSAN solution with bandwidth as the upgrade initiator.
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