Grapher and transparent background

I've searched high and low and was not able to find an answer. Here's my situation:
- I've created a 3D revolving graph using grapher and recorded the movement using SnapzPro. The resulting movie has a white background.
- I want to add it to a Keynote presentation I'm making.
My question:
Is it possible to make the white background transparent in FCE?
Any help will be most welcome!

So you don't actually have transparency in your 3D animation. You could try to key out the white in FCE, and then don't render and export to QuickTime Conversion using the Animation codec with Colors set to Millions+. I have no idea how Keynote handles this.

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