Motion tracking Question

I have a shot that is panning and asit pans a television will come onto the screen. My plan is to corner pin an image on to the TV. The problem is there is nothing to pin the image to until my trackers on the TV enter the screen. I just did a quick test and tried keyframing until I get all 4 trackers on but It's not as smooth as I would like it to be.
I read a post here about using the offset track but I didn't really understand what the poster was saying. Could anyone give me any quick "Motion Tracking for dummies" explanation of what I need to be doing? Also- we haven't shot the shot yet so is there a better way to do this setting up four trackers- one on each corner of the TV?

Yeah- I studied up on that. I've actually talked the DP into changing his shots around so the TV is always on screen. I figured I would leave the question opened for future use. Thanks

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