one thing you don’t get with the base bundle that I find essential is network rendering. I use that all the time. But if you’ve only got a main system- that’s not an isssue- you’ll run big renders over night. As for Blender to C4d- can’t really speak to that. I played with Blender for a little while, found little relation to what I eventually came to like in C4D. Also found Blender to be not a great performer- seems to be a port from a Windows or Linux version onto OSX with not great translation. C4D is stable- way more solid than FCP for example. Not to say Blender doesn’t rock for the price(free) but personally found that C4D would be preferable even if they cost the same.
Noah