Exporting....Best and wost codecs?

Hey everyone,
I've recently entered into the world of shooting most of my video on still cameras, such as the canon t2i, 7d, and 5d mark 2. For the most part, the footage has come out great. I was just wondering if anyone could help me with exporting and what codecs does everyone seems to use? I've been following Vimeo's online contest "Beyond the Still" which is actually sponsored by canon. All the contest entries are shot with canon still cameras and some of the footage looks amazing. This leads me back to my initial question, how do you think most of the entries within this contest are exported?
The way I have been exporting most of my videos out of final cut has been using the quicktime conversion, then choosing the h.264 codec and sliding the compression quality bar to best. I'm aware choosing how to export a video is dependent on how the video will eventually be used, i.e. on the web or on a dvd. however I was just wondering if I was missing anything, or what most of you are using as far as codecs go. Any and all input would be appreciated!
If any of you are unaware of the "beyond the still" contest I had mentioned and would like to check it out, here is the link.
http://vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill

Disk space is always a consideration, especially when the file that you've shot with your Canon DSLR is taking up just a few hundred megabytes worth of disk space and will jump up to gigabytes worth after you've transcoded it.
If you're feeling that Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) is overkill and you're not doing an offline/online workflow, I'd pick Apple ProRes 422 over Apple ProRes 422 (LT).
Furthermore, if storage space is a big issue, definitely look into an offline/online workflow.
Apple ProRes 422 (LT), like Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy), is a great choice for your offline edit. At roughly 101 Mbps for 1920x1080 at 60i, it offers good image quality with modest storage requirements (about 70% that of Apple ProRes 422). However (and this is a HUGE however), you want to do your online edit with Apple ProRes 422 (roughly 145 Mbps) or Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) (roughly 220 Mbps) once you've locked picture and then proceed with your color correction as these two codecs will hold up much better to everything that happens to your footage in an online edit as well as after you've generated an edited master (like encoding for Blu-ray, DVD-Video, Netflix, YouTube, Flash Video, iPhone video, etc., etc.). I'd only use LT for online editing if you and/or your client find the picture quality acceptable for your final cut, that alpha channel support isn't needed, and you don't mind the greater compression artifacts that are going to get introduced any time you encode your LT edited master to another format.
While HQ may seem like overkill (especially when you consider that the camera original is very heavily compressed 21 Mbps or less footage), it's really just right for what's going to happen to the footage as it continues on it's way to your audience.
Just some food for thought.
-Warren

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