Issue with Editing

I have reached a bit of an issue with with editing my video. I had hoped to use the light leaks or sun burn effect on the dream stage of the music video, but the feature was not available to use on the Macs at school. So I then intended to download software on my home laptop, edit in my home laptop then put the edit piece of film together on final cut at school. This plan has fallen through as my laptop is either unable to use the software or has an incompatible operating system. I will try and use Final Cut Express at school to give an effect close to that I desire, however an alternative effect may have to be used.