A kid I knew did a Star Wars Fan Film for his senior project a year ago, and he did it successfully with Premiere and AfterEffects, lightsaber blades and all...have you looked into AfterEffects yet?

Being a VFX artist myself, I'd go for rotoscoping. Once you're busy for a couple of hours it'll go pretty quick and tracking takes a lot time and keyframe as well. it's a pain in the ass, we've just completed a SW fanfilm and now we have to do the VFX... It sucks, I know...

Gotan

Rotoscoping is monotonous and tediously repetitive. The real challenge is the sound FX. Matching every swipe, swish and swoosh with the correct sound plus adding hum when they're not moving takes less time than rotoscoping but 235293 times the effort.

I agree. The sound effects are a real pain in the ass as well. But hey, the bigger the satisfaction when it's done

gotan

You guys check out these screen grabs from my upcoming SW fan film. We've been shooting for about a month now. I think it's gonna totally rock.

I don't mean to bring you down Harris, but that looks like rubbish. I can already tell from the grabs that not only will the dialog suck but there will be cheesy wipe transitions.