Set black to be transparent in Quicktime Pro

Hi everyone. I exported a Keynote presentation from Keynote and would like to set the black background of the movie to be transparent. Is there a way to do this?

QuickTime 7 Pro has changed some of the ways to use transparency and the visual settings tab of the Movie Properties window is where you find them.
Unfortunately setting a single color (Color Wheel) as transparent in gone in this version.
Extract just the text track (as a QT.mov) and email it to me at the screen name at the left @mac.com and I can send it back to you with transparency. I still have a working version of QT 6.5.2 Pro that I can use to adjust it.

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