Matchmove tracking points go out of shot.

Hi all, im new here. Im trying to create the effect of wall posters coming to life as they move across the shot. I have matchmoved the footage onto the layer below which works fine when all tracking points are in the shot - the problem comes when i get to the edges of the shot and the points im tracking are no longer visable - this causes the footage to distort.
So i'm wondering if anyone can advise me on how i can prevent things from being distorted when a tracking point goes out of shot?
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Regards,

When you do your motion track, you could track the points up to the frame where those points leave the shot, then pick another point that is in-frame and moving in the same way and continue the motion track but check the "offset track" button.
Otherwise, I think the only way to do it is to manually keyframe

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