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Actualy Windos movie maker is very good tool when you need fast edit a simple movie for youtube or when u just want only to cut somethink in your sceen. Fore this simple thiks you do not need sofisticated software but for creating somethink that is good the best software is Adobe After Effects 7 or CS3. I also recomend Avid Media Composer witch is great tool fore filme editing.

Yes, c++ is very good text game development(i used it for that), but i am not so sure that it is good choice for 2D or 3D game development. Reason is that it be can very complicated in solveing some simple problems. So for that i recoment C#.C# can also be good for text game development to. But in game development the success is not in tool it's in programmer.