Rotoscoping and live-action animation

Is it possible to do rotoscoping and live-action animation in iMovie? This type of animation was used in the "Take On Me" music video by a-ha in the 80's and more recently in the Charles Schwab commercials and the movie "A Scanner Darkly" starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder.
iMac 1.8 Ghz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

welcome SCD to the  boards of discussions...
iM is a consumer video edit app... import some minutes of miniDV camcorder stuff, edit it - done...-
such elaborated effects as rotoscoping are for sure NOT supported... these are domains of the Big Guys as Final Cut (I'm using FCElements for the "special effects" in my homemovies...) or $$$$ Motion, After Effects etc.pp.
they main need to do such effects is a second video-layer.. which iM doesn't support...-
the "poor-man's effect machine" is the combo of a grafic app + QTpro... that will allow to convert a bunch of handpainted pics into a solid dv-stream for iM... I did that for my lil' StarWars project I made for my son... (which reminds me to finally finish the making_of website < slapping own forehead .. > )
another, excellent tool for rotosoping is
http://www.istopmotion.com/
.. the "onion-skinning" allows perfect precision ...

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