Making background transparent...no color ?

I want to move stills around & bring them into FCP ontop of video. In Motion what is the setting so that the background is transparent (no background color) in the resulting QT export movie. What is the setting/prefs for this ?
Regards...Ray
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I can not bring the Motion file into FCP, it gives me an error message when I try and import it into FCP browser. Also, I still can't export my project out of Motion with a transparent background, I tried all of the above. 0% opacity background, None or animation option in codec export, I'm still getting a black ground with my Quicktime Export movie. In the View Menu of Motion I was able to set the Channel option to transparent, so I see a transparent background in the timeline of Motion, but it does not translate to a transparent background on export. Still perplexed on this one, still seem to be missing something here.
Thanks for further assistance with this.
Regards
Ray

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