Cutting video into a seperate layers

Hi
I'm quiet new to motion and am stuck trying to get a effect I want. I have some footage of a sports man slowly turning round and I want a glow/flash of light to come from behind his name on the back of his shirt.
I've managed to get a good mask on the lettering of the first frame and have motion tracker following the movement of the letters. But I can't match the vector points of the mask to follow the motion analyser path.
If anyone knows how I could do this (or has a simpler way of making the effect) I would be very grateful.
Thanks

What you're trying to do goes beyond the capabilities of the motion tracker since individual control points do not respond to tracking data, only layers.
You're going to have to adjust the mask frame by frame. It's a technique known as rotoscoping. It's time-consuming, but gives a really good result.
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