Quicklook is not quick anymore. It needs to convert even .mov files! Is there a solution?

Today, I got a rather agressive reminder to upgrade to Mavericks on my workstation. I work as a motion graphics designer and as a result of that, I am opening, watching and making movies all day.
On my home computer, an iMac, I installed Mavericks, and then Quicklook became totally unusable for movies. Even .movs in Apple Animation codec cannot be 'looked quick at', but need to convert.
Untill this is solved, I am not going to upgrade my workstation to Mavericks, since it is gonna cost me a lot of time and annoyance.
Why is this brilliant feature of Mac OSX crippled in Mavericks?

Both ProRes and H.264 are lossy and not useful as codec for graphics that have to be processed over and over.
However - it is not an improvement if less movies can be opened than before. Quicklook should open every movie that is encoded in a codec installed in the Library.

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