Can I separate out a matte in psd file and move the fill

I have a logo which is text that's a photoshop file with a transparent background which of course AE treats as a matte. perfect. now I want to take the fill in the letters (it's a bunch of color blocks) and have them grow inside the text. In an AVID I would just separate out the fill and do a move on it. How do I accomplish this in AE?
thanks

I would use the letters layer as a track matte. Bring the fill in as a full-screen image (or higher res than that if you're going to want the blocks to grow a lot). Place the letters on the layer above the fill. Switch on "track matte alpha" on the fill layer and scale the fill to taste.

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