Importing clip with Title

(first time this way) I created an animated titles clip (in After Effects) and imported it into my FCP session. How do I get rid of the black background in the title clip. I know it's not an Apple product but when I've created titles in FCP in the past, it automatically layered correctly.
Thanks

:You haven't output from aftereffects correctly. You need to output with an alpha channel assuming you've created the title with transparency. You need to make sure the output module is set for millions+ colors and that the codec supports an alpha channel. Animation does and I think one of the new flavors of prores does.

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