Have an image stay within a moving mask in stock video footage

HI, I am new to Motion (still using Motion 4) and I have some stock footage that has a mask contained within a TV screen that swings down from the ceiling. I can easily get the jpeg I want within the TV screen when it's not moving, but how do I get it to track with the movement of the screen without having to distort and keyframe every frame? Please help, total newbie, searched dicussions and found similar posts but nothing that is completely applicable and illuminating! Any links to tutorials, etc would be massively helpful. Thank you.

hi
how many frames is it? keyframing is often not that hard or timeconsuming. You could look at the motion trackers in Motion. You apply an Analyse Motion bevahiour to your stock footage. adding markers to the bits you want to track. Then apply a Match Move behaviour to the jpg. If you create a four corner pin track it should distort the jpg accordingly.
hth
adam

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