Filling Text with a Texture?

I want to take a piece of video (specifically the metal texture from the generator tab) and fill my text face with it. What I've tried:
Selecting "Face" in the 'text' section of the inspector for the text I want to fill
Then I selected "Texture" from the "Fill With " drop down menu
Then I clicked inside the "Source Media" icon,
Next the monitor split and when I selected the section of video I wanted to use (in this case the metal texture I dragged from the generators) I clicked "apply clip"
and then nothing happnes, and the "Source Media" thumbnail remains blank..
I also tried this with other random video clips just in case it might be the generator, all to no avail...
...am I doing something wrong or is this another bug?

Put the texture on top of the video. Put the text on top of the texture. To the text apply blend mode Stencil Alpha. Combine the text and the texture into a compound clip.

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:12:16 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Textured Text with after effects
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