Help for a noob

It’s like zeauro has said, blender technically has all the features you need in order to produce motion graphics, but there is no specialized workflow built into blender for it. I haven’t used c4d, but although you can do the same stuff in blender, it’s bound to take a lot more steps here.

For example take a look at this post I made concerning adding 3D text to video in blender:

I think that is an over complicated process for doing something that should be relatively simple, and it will probably be years before the video editing workflow gets revamped. That said, it’s definitely doable for free in blender, and whatever potential workflow improvements using c4d for that same stuff could bring probably isn’t worth having to pay several thousands of dollars each year as a freelancer.