Can I erase background of vid and only keep 1 moving subject?

I am working with a football video and need to erase the background as runner is running and just keep the runner. Is that possible with FCP? I have tried garbage mattes and chroma key. I guess I don't know what I am doing but if it is possible, please let me know how to do it. Thanks.

Wow, sounds like you've got a lot more tolerance for tedium than I do.
Roto is already so laborious and monotonous, it's barely tolerable, for me. The functionality of this particular matte seems like an ice pick to the forhead. At least in Motion you can click-drag a mask point, or bezier handle at will—and manipulate it, quickly and easily. With this 50 pt. matte, don't you have to go to the "control window", click the little cross hair, then place/edit that point in the canvas? That's fine until you want to adjust it, then you have to go back over to the control panel to re-gain control. You're constantly bouncing between control panel & canvas it seems... Ouch!
Maybe I'm missing something about how this matte works. But if I had to work like that, I'd pull my hair out. I'm not knocking your workflow if you've used this before. I'm applauding your efforts to see it through. Congratulations! You're a far more patient individual than am I!
Though, to the OP, if the Final Cut Suite is all that's available, I'd certainly look at doing this job in Motion.
Yes, AE is going to faster at this, if we're talking about the Rotobrush tool that shipped with CS5. It's not a one-click-wonder. But it certainly does a great "first pass" that you can clean up and refine, after it's done the initial dirty work. But if you don't have AE CS5, it's kind of moot. I think the AE process and the Motion process are going to be nearly the same, regarding time-spent. Either packages' "standard" mask manipulation tools are very similar. (If we're disregarding the Rotobrush.)
Here's a tip, regarding Roto (in any application): it's not always best to use a single mask/matte. Instead, combine several mattes into one. In this instance, maybe 5 individual masks? One for: torso/head, arm, arm, leg, leg. Gives you more flexibility in the long run. And it's no more time consuming than using a single mask.

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