1.First, edit your entire lightsaber scene without drawing any of the blades on. that way if you decide to cut a shot, you didn't waste all day editing that piece. Plus you will need a copy without the glowing blades to fix up some photoshop problems when you're done (see step 3.)

2. When editing, edit the saber that is FURTHEST from the camera before you edit the one(s) closest to it. If the blade from a saber 20 feet away is overlapping the saber 2 feet away, its gonna look pretty screwy.

3. Filmstrips can sabatoge your blades, because the shine off of a blade near the top of the screen will be shown on the bottom of the next frame. This can be solved by splitscreening the the unedited clip (see step one) over where this unwanted glow is.

4. These blades don't show up very well on white, so try not to film this on a bright cloudy day, or against any other white background.

Information in this article was compiled by Rocky Murray.