Perspective corner pin and adjustment layers

Hi,
I am sure this is and easy one for all you more expereinced guys out there... I am trying to adjust a piece of footage that has a very blown out window in it, I was thinking I can simply motion track the window using the perspective corner pin tool, then apply the tracking data on to an adjustment layer that has the color adjustments I require. However as soon as I apply the tracking data the adjustment layer will shrink down a copy of the layer underneith into the tracked shape and turn everything else outside of it black. What s the right approach? Many thanks in advance!

That's what it does - any track produces coordinates relative to the source footage dimensions. Not sure where you are having problems, so let me try to recap this step for step.
Create a comp
Add footage
Create a comp sized solid
Do a corner pin track
Apply the track to the solid
Select solid
Do layer --> pre-compose, choose to move all attributes
Go back to source comp
Turn on adjustment layer switch on pre-comped layer
Add whatever effects you want
The effects will now only appear inside the tracked area as it effectively acts as a matte for them by ways of being an adjustment layer.
Mylenium

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