Importing transparent images

I want to use a logo as an overlay on a video in FCE4.
I have a GIF flie of the logo with a transparent background that works just fine when overlaying it on other images in Photoshop & Acorn.
However, when I add that image to a track above a video track, the transparent background turns black.
At one point in time, I was able to use a PSD version of the logo on a video and the background was transparent, but it doesn't consistently work.
Is there a magic bullet that I'm missing?

FCE works well with images having a transparent background in PSD, PNG and TIFF formats (I prefer uncompressed TIFF). First make sure the image is in RGB Color Mode (not the same as Color Profile). Images in Grayscale, Indexed or CMYK Color modes do NOT work in FCE.
-DH

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Hi guys,
Just started using Indesign cs6 and for the life of me can not work out how to import transparent pngs. All transparent images I import have their background changed to a white background. The image import options has an option to use transparency information, with either use white back ground (which is selected) or use file defined background colour.
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Ps. First post, so go easy on me

I don't have Fireworks and I haven't made any Fireworks PNG files.
I'm not sure how they work. But I believe that Fireworks PNGs can contain editable layers for Fireworks use only.
This may be part of the issue of the transparent background - but as I say I have very limited knowledge of Fireworks.
What I will say with some degree of comfort is that PNG is primarily a web format - and it's not a print format. Adobe InDesign is a page layout tool intended for Print on mechanical presses - and it's only recently it's been geared towards Web, ePub and Flash creation.
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Dear Adobe community,
I am trying to import a transparent image from Photoshop to Premiere Pro CC. Whatever file format I choose to export from Photoshop, Premiere Pro CC will not import the file correctly. When I import is, two things occur: 1) the image gets imported, but the white background is still there or 2) the image gets an error "The importer reported a generic error".
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Images like jpeg dont have an alpha channel.
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I have an issue involving gif images where there is a transparent area that must remain transparent. When I import these images into FCP (6.0.4), the transparent area becomes white and looks awful... how do I fix this phenomenon?

Does it really have to be GIF?
Only 256 colors as opposed to the 16 million possible in a TV picture.
Alpha channel is either on or off - meaning you can't have semi-transparent areas.
Non-existent anti aliasing and horrible quality generally.
Even with JPEG you are pushing your luck. JPEG compression can corrupt the fields in interlaced video.
Saving money on cheap, quick graphics now means spending it later trying to fix what "doesn't look right". Guess what? It never will.
TIFF is best, PNG will just about do it if not.

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Its important.
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The new link on own hostingn no account needed.
http://users.ugent.be/~baverhey/illustrator.pdf
il post the ai file in about 10 hours
@Mike Gondek no drop shadows, no border , no effects what so ever, thats the strange thing.
just transparent for the whole background, i hope you can see it in the pdf.
The effect is not visable in the illustrator artbord work enviremetn.
Wel visable in print, pdf, different pdf, print to pdf, save to adobe pdf.
gonne try tiff and some others to night.
@ MikeWenzloff : i used pdfx-1 due to printer request.
ill try 4 tonight
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I was wondering if it's possible to import an image which contains a transparent part of it into Motion, so I can later add in images and videos underneath that layer.
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hi again,
there are two ways to do this. In Photoshop you can elect to have a transparent background, if you erase your image to show the chequered background, Motion will do the same.
Or from within Motion you can apply a mask to an image to have it show whats underneath. Apply the mask using the mask tools in the toolbar to the image, then step over to the Inspector, hit the mask tab and select the type as subtract. That will punch a hole in your image revealing whatever is underneath it.
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adam

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I do not have Premiere 6.5 any more on my pc so its my heart and it has been a while.
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I'm very new to Illustrator so excuse me if I ask something which can't be done.
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Well Mr. Jacob Brugge, to be honest.................than the problem is solved.
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I was wondering if anyone has ever tried creating an image with it's background carefully traced and removed, then saving that edited image into a transparency, and then of course importing it into the FCE timeline superimposed over the main video track?
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Hi Thanx Matt
Ok then as I understand it, the completed (edited), image after cropping (removal of the background), must be saved as just a .psd adobe project file, and NOT exported as any other file type.
Now unless I'm missing something, you say that this psd will definitely open in FCE HD (just as a psd).
Correct?
And then this psd transparent file will allow video background to appear superimposed under/over it.
Correct?
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