I want text to appear as a caption to the video that shows through. I am using "Video Event FX: Sony Text." In help, i find the following description for the properties tab: "If you choose a solid color, the video below your text will be obscured. If you choose a transparent color, your text will be displayed over the video." So, the question is, "HOW DO YOU ACTUALLY CHOOSE A TRANSPARENT COLOR?". (Its always nice when the help assumes you already know how to do what it is you are looking at help for!). I've spent a bunch of time playing with it, but whether i choose background color of white, black, red, etc, none is transparent, and so the video from other tracks does not show through.

Please help! Can anybody write here a -specific- description of how to "choose a transparent color"?

Thank you. Tom.