Best way to image sequence like ipod silhouette ad?

I have a two second clip of a dancer doing a move I'd like to 'convert' to a black on white animation. The original is a video of a dancer on stage so the background is not clean, but I have managed to import a still into photoshop and have succesfully deleted the background.
Is this the best way to do it, convert the 2 seconds to 60 separate frames and clean them in photoshop and reimport into FCP or is there another way using Final Cut Studio? As the eventual sequence is for internet, should I reduce the sequence to 15 frames a second or less?
G5 iMac, powerbook 667 dvi, g3 266 desktop   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   Logic Pro
G5 iMac, powerbook 667 dvi, g3 266 desktop   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   Logic Pro

That sounds like one way to do it, but when you have a lot of movement it is almost always impossible to get right. The largest mask you can create in Final Cut is an 8 point garbage mask. You can create masks in After Effects with more points but to get it right it may take as long as Photoshop. It might be worth your time to reshoot on a Chroma Key background if it is only 2 seconds.
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