Re: Adobe After Effects CS5 Mac, Non-profit $65 offer question...

Is that offer directly from Adobe? If so, do you have a link? Also, does Adobe have NGO pricing for the Production or Master Suite?

Yes, it's definitely worth the $, but you'll need to invest the time as well to learn the workflow. Things like cropping an image are handled differently than FCP or Photoshop, as is nesting (which is pre-composing in AE), there's no grouping like in Photoshop--you have to precomp, but then you have to make sure that the pre-comps have a high enough resolution to not get cropped. Hmm, I just realized that you could use pre-comping as an alternative method for cropping, but it's not preferred since you'd lose a lot of control. Anyhow, it definitely requires some time and effort to learn, but it's well worth it.