Redraw Masks Every Frame in Motion 3

I am trying to roto out a guy in a shot but, as you know, it takes a long time to move the point every shot. I can't use the track points feature because the guy is turning so the points keep disappearing. However, it seems to be really fast every time I redraw the mask (it's easier to just click points rather than find click and drag old ones). Is there any way to make it so I can just click to recenter the tracking points and then jump to the next one? Or maybe is there a way to redraw the mask every frame easily?
Thanks in advance!

Not much to suggest without seeing what you're up to other than add 1 pixel of blur to the dropzone objects.
bogiesan

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