Will the 13' Macbook Pro do well with Heavy Video editing?

Hello,
      I'm a grade 13 High School student who is in his last 4 months of High School. I'm looking to purchase the 13' Macbook Pro (Without Retina Display), with the 2.9Ghz Processor, and 8GBs of RAM. I will be doing Film, Animation, and all the normal things people do on laptops such as YouTube, Facebook, and others. I will be using very Graphic intensive programs such as Adobe After Effects, and Motion 5. I plan to get ether the 500GB SATA Hard Disc Drive, or the 1TB Hard Disc Drive. SSDs are not in my price point. Which would you recomend to be the better deal?
     Can this computer keep up with my needs? I was planning on getting the 15', but now the Apple Online Store no longer hold them, oh well. I would like ot have this computer for a long time after College as well. How is it's durrability? Also, since it's a Laptop, how long does the battery last while using programs like what I specified above?
     I thank you everyone for helping me out with these questions I have!

I have been using late 2008 MacBook(2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, 8GB RAM, 9400M graphics) which running Yosemite 10.10.1 as sub machine which works fine so far.
1,2) Yes, you can back up bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper! or Disk Utility on external drive, and if you don't like Yosemite, you can back to 10.9.5 from it anytime you want(boot from external drive, then restore previous system from external drive with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! or Disk Utility on internal disk).
3) I dont connect iPhone to my MacBook, though I think your MacBook Pro can handle it.

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