I want to reuse a cutout of a face that I am making talk

I have very successfully gotten a face to talk using Roberts Productions training video. I have successfully merged a cutout of the face that I made using the pen tool in a video clip and gotten it to move with the body in the clip. I have done this for the same face into many clips.
But I must cutout the head that I place in the next video everytime. It is the same head. It is cutout exactly the same way. Surely there is a way to transfer just the cutout portion. When I cutout the head in the base picture, rather than in the video, then the black background area comes with it and I still have to cut it out again.
Thanks from a newbie

If Dave's assumptions are correct, you could also just skip the masking and edit out the background of the layers in Photoshop.  Then export them using the Export Layers to Files sccript with preserve transperancy turned on. Go to File - Scripts - Export Layers to Files.  Then choose something like PNG-24 or TIFF, anything with an alpha channel, and click preserve transperency and turn off trim layers if you want to bring them back into AE in the exact same place or use trim to crop them, but then you'll have to reposition everything.
This screenshot is taken from my new blog where I did a short tutorial about working with image sequences in PS & AE.  if you're curious or want more info check it out here:
http://benmarkus.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/working-with-image-sequences -in-photoshop-after-effects-cs6/

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