What is better: Export as .MOV or Export as .MP4 ?

I have a couple of small DigiCam *.MP4 videos. Some of them I have to rotate 90 deg clockwise, to edit, to re-encode and to save as a new video.
When coming to the "export" step I have the choice between the original *.MP4 (=MPEG-4) format and *.MOV (=Apples Quicktime).
Which one should I take?
I guess both are not lossless. So which one have the minimum losses in quality when re-encoding and saving?
Are there other considerations?
Peter

Anytime you work with a potentially destructive process you need to test it and be very confident in it. Do test option II quite well -- I have seen full data exports not actually export all the data. So you need to be very confident it is working as expected. As Glen pointed out some cubes have data loaded high (which is not a best practice as if you load data high it should be allocated back down such that an aggregation will not clobber it).
In regards to Cameron's findings about a restructure working just as fast as a level 0 exp / load / agg this is a case of a disk bottleneck. A restructure process in all versions older than 11.1.2.2 were always single threaded and if you have a well tuned aggregation which does make use of multiple cores then if your disk subsystem isn't a huge bottleneck the
level 0 exp / load / agg will ALWAYS be faster. This being said it's not uncommmon to see poorly architected hardware which Essbase is being ran on which means Cameron's finding may be more the typical environment.
Regards,
John A. Booth
http://www.metavero.com

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