Are Quicktimes with alpha channel gone in Keynote 6.0?

Say it aint so. This is a very crucial feature of the app for my company.

While presenting from an iOS device is certainly useful, I want to be able to do the best presentations possible. Looks like Keynote 5.3 will be the tool of choice for some time yet.
Keynote 6, while a step forward for maybe 99% of users (that don't want to care about what works and what doesn't on various platforms), is a major leap backwards for the professional presentation business.
Time for Apple - or perhaps better yet, some third party - to make a Keynote Pro and make it desktop only, if that's what it takes. Bring back the larger choice of transitions, support for QuickTime alpha channels and dynamic Quartz Compositions, interaction with master slide objects and mixing of themes in the same presentation. And don't stop there:
Add parallell layers or tracks, so that some visuals or audio can play uninteruppted over several slides.
Add dynamic inputs, so a text and media fields can be populated by tweets or other RSS feeds.
Add a proper theme editor, so you easily can change various defaults and maybe add custom border styles and stuff.
Make the presenter's display more flexible, and allow for (simple) editing of slides while running the show.
Phil Schiller may have the time and resources to let 3D animators render full frame wow!-inducing movies-as-transitions, but isn't it better to have more power within the application itself? And with Keynote 6, some of that power is gone.
Maybe it'll be like with FCP X, where some of the lost features of the previous version got added back in an update. But as with anything Apple, who knows?

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I don't know the answer to your question.
Do you have a video player where you can verify that the alpha channel in the video is displaying as you expect?.... that is, the background is transparent?
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http://www.mrfilmbiz.com/
the walkon... could have had other action (like Flash artwork) going on in the background... but that may not really be what you are looking for.
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SOOOOOOOOOOOO... Why have I told you all this?
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