Travelling Mask

Hi there, can anyone help me with this?  I'm pretty new to Studio Artist and whenever I try to use a Travelling Mask, I follow all the instructions in the training videos, but the mask does not move with the person that moves.  The mask just remains static while the person moves away.  I'm sure I'm missing something.  It doesn't matter how closely I draw the mask around the person, the mask does not move.  And I don't think it's a question of processing power as my Mac has 32 of RAM.  I just know that I'm missing something.  Am I supposed to perform some linking somewhere, or is there some setting on the Mac that needs to be changed?  Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Here's a tip on selecting and masking the canvas.

    If you used a lasso selection, the mask isn't going to move unless you keyframe it.

    If you are using something like source growth selection, the selection is working off of where you moused down and how much you grew the selection. You can use global color for the growth option if you want it to be only color based, and not tied to position.

    • Thank you for your reply, I,ll work on your suggestions.  Can you suggest where I can get more information about your suggestions.  I don't think the details you mentioned are covered in the manual.  Maybe an article?

      As a further question, Why is it that when a "USE ALPHA GEN MOVIE PREFERENCE is added to a stream you are not given the option to "CLOSE OPEN MOVIE STREAM" to enable the stream to be written.  

      Thanks for your help

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