Question about SFX...

[HSPuppets]

I'm trying to put together a sprite that has a lot of SFX (the utsuho reiuji sprite) and almost all of its SFX have a black background to them. I'm not exactly sure how to work with that, since some of the sprites fade in to the background. Do I have to manually remove the black background and work from there? It'd be much appreciated if I could get some insight on this.
Thank you.

[Ultimecia]

You're ripping, right? Then you should post at ripping projects or at the root of tSR sub-forum, moving it

Now on your question : if it's from the source maybe you should leave it with black background. If not, maybe it's your capture method which is flawed, did you tried another tools?

[Davy Jones]

If you want to use the SFX: They have alpha transparency and depending on your engine it will look fine or not (RPG Maker XP for example has no problems with that).