im no camera guru but my advice would be Premiere, after effects and photoshop bundle to cover all the fields.

Premiere for fine detailed editing, After effects for Keyframing of just about everything including difficult masking and croma keying

And photoshop for rotoscoping needs.

Thats probily one of the biggest things about using the adobe tools the fact that you can export FLM format and bring dirrectly into photoshop for editing on what looks like a filmstrip and save it back out compleatly readable as a movie to premeire or after effects...

The cross software compatibility is primo in the adobe bundle
If you wanna do special effects i wouldnt go any other way

If you want to do 3d work then its a toss up between 3d studio max or maya

personally im a maya man my self

movies done in maya include SPIDERMAN, LORD OF THE RINGS AND KING KONG

And movies done in 3d studio max, uhhhhh lol i knew theres a few, lol but like i said im a mayaman

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