Getting rid of black background in iPhoto slideshow converted to .mov

Hi all!
I have a desperate friend who created about an hour long slide show in iPhoto using "Vintage Prints" theme --it has a black background with photos getting dropped in. There are four segments she wants me to edit together for the whole show for her daughter's graduation party. Is there any way to get rid of that black background and replace it with a solid color background or texture? I have tons of animated textures and backrounds but I can't figuere out how to bring them to the rescue since the .mov is already created...... I thought of keying but 'black' isn't the new chromakey blue or green...... thought of a garbage mask but the shapes of the photos and collages dropping in are not constant.... Ideas?
I didn't see a way in iPhoto to convert that black background to white or color either.... Did I miss something there?
Thanks all!
ClemKins

ClemKins wrote:
.. ...but I can't get a background or color in underneath....
works like charme here:
.. ok, needs some tweaking: a luma-key is never working as good as a color-key ... but iPhoto delivers some very solid black, so FCPX' keyer creates an acceptable job (in my humble criteria).
ok, the fade-out-to-black in the ending of the slideshow theme makes a luma-key impossible!
keep in mind: the 'key' is more like a 'key-hole' (=as a non-native speaker, this is my mnomic ) - the color, alpha or black gets transparent and allows a look-thru to anything underneath ... that simple.
ClemKins wrote:
...this was so much easier in FC 7. Thoughts?
you still think in 'tracks' - no need
Think of 'layers'

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