It’s been a few years now since the release of the H.264 Quicktime codec, and it’s safe to say that it has now cemented its format as the codec of the future.  The majority of video files these days are wrapped in some sort of H.264 codec, but in the world of post production when asked to export a file what should one choose?  The Quicktime Animation codec is still a very popular choice and for good reason.  It gives you basically an uncompressed (or as close to uncompressed as you’ll need) version of whatever video your exporting, in a high quality but also large file size.  The quality is never the question amongst those handling the video, but the file size can be, so enter H.264.  The Quicktime H.264 codec offers a good quality but much much smaller size video.  So what’s the big deal?  Why not just always use H.264? 
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