[CS5] masking a person on a clip with heavy motion stabalization already done

Hoping to get somekind of a basic outline on how to proceed with this task:
I've been working on some really nasty willdly jerky footage.
I received some coaching that directed me to use the stabalizer aspect of motion tracking and man did that really do a nice a job... only needing hand adjustment in the very worst places.
Now I have the clip looking quite stable, however, of course there are quite a few places where the edges of the clip are yanked into visibility. I can cover some of it by increasing the size but this is so bad that size increase is not enough.
I think I'll mask out the background using a fairly heavy feather and get rid of the edges that way. And just display the person singing that way in a larger wedding video.
I recall having spent a very lot of time doing a similar chore once some time ago (before the nifty rotobrush) where I hand followed (with a pentooled mask), footage of my great grand son and managed to cut him out of the video where he made his first decent adventure at walking.
Had great fun setting him to tromping thru downtown Chicago and various other outrageous places, but it was a serious time sink getting it done.
In this case it would be a much looser mask that would leave an inch (on computer monitor) or so around the person visible as well.
So I'd end up with very loose mask around a person singing for about 4 minutes during a wedding shoot.
I've forgotten quite a lot of how I set up the previous chore
Can I get a few suggestings of how to tackle this job. I mean just general suggestions.

Mathias Möhl wrote:
If you want to get rid of the visible edges, you should definitely consider the following After Effect tutorial:
http://www.mamoworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= 96%3Atutorial-stabilize-motion-without-the-need-to-zoom-in&catid=35%3A tutorials&Itemid=62&lang=en
It uses a technique that does not need to zoom-in at all (or can be combined with a little zooming for very complicated shots.
Here is a quick preview:
http://www.vimeo.com/17812426
Best
Mathias
Nice input, this promises to be a really hand thing to know about. It seems I work quite a lot of bad footage as my camera skills leave a lot to be desired.
I think my footage would fall into the category you mention above where some zooming would still have to be applied.
The promise of the tutorial is exactly hitting the big problem of stabalizing really bad footage. I'm eager to go thru it but it will have to be for the next project as this one is due today and managed to camoflage the terrible footage with a clumsy loose mask that will have to do for now.

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