Exporting Transparent Background From After Effects

I am working on a FCP project which I have also made an animated lower third in After Effects. However, I do not know how to export from after effects preserving the transparent background- it always just ends up as being black...
Thanks

From AE, you must use the Animation codec set to millions of colors+

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