Transparent background  for export to FCP

I have a bunch of little green icons I have animated and I want to be able to drop them in my FCP project as needed. I have searched and read and read.... and read..... I can't seem to figure out how to do this. From reading on my search results I must mess with the alpha channels but I'm really new at this and am not sure how to do this. Can anyone just give me a little quick step-by-step on this?
I have, in Motion, the export settings to Millions of Colors+ and Animation.
Thanks-

This isn't nearly as intuitive as I think this should be.
You're right, video is really hard.
Looking back over your thread, it's entirely possible the movies have transparency, you're just not looking at it properly, which is, granted, confusing. But alpha channels are not fundamental to video editing, they're special types of clips and you need to learn how to create and use them.
Motion is set by default to render to the Animation codec but may not be set to millions of colors +, the + sign is the alpha.
And, no, sorry, it can't be explained in a simple step-by-step post. There are fifty or a hundred pages on alphas in the Motion documentation. Start with the explanation of the Animation codec.
bogiesan
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