How to get desired opacity effect on V1?

Here's what I want to do: reduce the opacity of about a minute of video on V1, on V2 overlay scrolling black text during that minute, and on A1 & A2 have audio of a person speaking the text. Simple, right?
I have absolutely no problem with the scrolling text and audio.
For opacity on V1, here's what I did:
Dropped the video in the Viewer
Clicked the Motion tab and keyframed the opacity amount & position as desired
Clicked the View pop-up menu and selected the white background
Clicked the Viewer's Video tab, clicked the Play button, and the playback is exactly the effect wanted: the video lightens up where opacity is keyframed.
However, when I drop that video clip in the Timeline, render and hit Play, playback on the Canvas is completely the opposite:
During the opacity portion, instead of a white background showing thru, a black background is showing thru -- which will make it impossible to clearly see the scrolling text. Clicking the Canvas' View pop-up menu and selecting the white or checkerboard backgrounds makes no difference. When I stop playback, the white background shows, but when I hit play again, the black background is back.
I'm obviously doing something wrong, but after several hours playing with this, doing various searches, +and even reading up on opacity the manual+, I still can’t figure out what step I'm missing. This is particularly distressing because I’ve been using FCP ever since version 2 (2001), and I feel like an idiot.
I’m using the latest version of FCP and all software is current.
Help!

My thanks to both Brian and G. Placing a color, white in this case, under the track I wanted to lighten up, is indeed the answer. I knew it was something simple, because the project I'm working on now is a near duplicate of one I did 4 or 5 years ago. I wonder what else I've forgotten since then.
Sorry G., but Brian beat you by minute, so I guess it's only fair he gets the credit for solving the question.
Tom T

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