What softwares are used for making movies?

Question by Pra: What softwares are used for making movies?
What are the softwares that are mostly used by professionals for vfx and animations in movies?
Is it Premiere? After effects? Combustion? or some other advanced software? for vfx.
Is it Maya? 3ds Max? XSI? or other advanced ones? for animation.
Thanx idemnow…
Can someone give some more concrete answers. From wikipedia, I found that both XSI and 3ds max have been used for making some really nice movies, and Maya has even won an oscar, but still dont know in which movies it has been used. Is Maya the most commonly used one then??
Another thing I found interesting is that compositing softwares(like after effects) and video edtitng softwares(like premiere pro) are kept in 2 completely different categories; why is it so??
Still no idea which is the best compositing and editing software though.

Best answer:

Answer by MyPc
there are many softwares used for amking animation

if you want to make simple animations you can always use ” macromedia flash ” and if u r wonderin g why the naimations u make look nothing like the ones in movies they have a really specialized program which costs thousands of dollars so… yeah

good luck

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