I dont have a real good answer for this, I dont do a lot of animation so I use the really cheap (& free) stuff. I found a copy of Lumiere on the net for about $29.00. It used to be a Corel program but is out of development now. It is easy to use and has a bunch of features. But it does not support some of the latest video formats. I end up building the movie there and saving it as an uncompressed avi then encoding it with something else, like the free encoder from Microsoft. It works but takes that extra step. mdc