Ryan –
I wish I could say I was laying off to LTO or using the cloud BUT I still use hard drives, and they are non-RAID array type. I suppose that I would lean toward the Avid codec rather than the Quicktime one if I had to chose between the two.
What other items should be adjusted to get maximum quality based on your experience?
What about the soon arrival of H.265 in regard to a web codec? I notice that the mp4 that I get out of Premiere Pro does not play well on a Quicktime player but, of course, it does great on an Adobe Reader.
Thanks for the tips. Would welcome more.