What is the editing tool that professional movie makers use to make effects in movies?

Question by Jim M: What is the editing tool that professional movie makers use to make effects in movies?
What are the tools (preferrably free) that I can buy and/or download (if free) from the internet that can aid me to easily produce movie effects on my movie I am currently designing. I need something beyond movie maker from windows with doesn’t have any computer graphic creating tools. I really need this guys, so please help me…

Best answer:

Answer by Emilee
Sorry can’t think of exactly what you’re looking for but …
iMovie has limited effects.
There are effects packages you can buy for good editing softwares, i think there’s one for iMovies if not Adobe is good and has software for pretty much everything.

http://fxhome.com/

Heres a list of softwares you might want to look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software

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