Adding PS Texture to Video in AE

Hi all,

I'm working on a commercial and have developed a nice look, feel working with my graphic designer. Rather than having to mask and animate this mask to reveal a select piece of a video clip and have texture surrounding, is there anyway to link the Photoshop texture layer including its non-textured opening to a video layer such that the colors of the video layer become textured?

I realize you can use the 'Texturize' effect to apply the texture to the video, but this requires more effort in terms of masking and tracking. That is certainly do-able and is the method I have started using. Of course I would prefer a work around that is less time consuming, so here I am posing this question. I have also attempted apply the texture to a transparent solid with no luck as the resulting look is far from what was developed in PS.

Please let me know if this requires more explanation etc. I am working with CS5 on a PC. And any resources that can be pointed to would also be helpful. Or tell me to quit looking for a solution and get started masking & tracking! :)

Thank you for any feedback,

Lindsay