Trying a match move

I am trying to do a match move of text to mimic a a motion clip of a boomarang. I am selecting the text>Behaviors>Motion Tracking>Match move, and using the boomarang clip as my source. Settings are ; mimic source, direction-horizontal & vertical, adjust-rotation and type-transformation and then I anylize. It does'nt seem to work. Am I missing something?
Thanks
Jeff

Search is your friend:
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?q=tracking&objID=f656&dateRange=all
There's even a couple of tutorials there from special case...
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