Cutting certain sections with in a frame

hi,
I've only really use FCP for basic editing, and was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on something new I want to try.
Basicly I have some footage and just want to cut the main charater out and put them on top of a new background. It's not been green screened, the footage is part of a stage show so the lighting and colour of the background changes through the clip. It's for a (sort of joke) christmas present so it doesn't have to be perfect and I probably don't have time to cut out the charater frame by frame.
All advise is will be greatly appreciated.

Put the foreground on V2 and the new background on V1. Use a garbage matte to cut out the foreground. you can keyframe a movement of this matte so if the person moves, it moves with him. the more you keyframe, the better it gets.
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