The Four Kay Quandary

This is more of a rhetorical rant than anything. About a week ago, I unpackaged my shiny new GH4 along with the expensive, and hopefully adequate, SD cards. I took them out for a spin. Now I'm sitting here, after a frustrating episode trying to decide what codec to export at, watching a remaining clock, that tells me it's going to take 117 hours to upload the 50 clips I have queued up on Fetch. Apparently I'm doing this to capture some of the 1% of the market that's currently buying 4k.

Welcome to the madness of the four the Kay's, it would take me around 150 hours to upload 50 clips and probably a new hard drive and computer and no streaming T.V. I had all good intentions going into 4K with my GH4 of uploading Photojpeg then I decided as I had to buy a new computer I went Mac and Final Cut Pro X so my preferred choice is now ProRes HQ 4.2.2 but it takes me on average 3 hours uploading one clip. Out of desperation I upload h.264 and hope when I move I'll get a higher internet speed and go back to ProRes HQ.

I currently upload H.264 with my 4K as well. Even with that my uploads cannot keep up with my work. I know many look down on using h.264 but it really comes down to logistics for me. I cannot do it any other way. Apart from that the GH4 gives me a h.264 file in the first place. Most buyers can transcode it to their codec of choice just as easily as I can. I don't see why me transcoding the file to proress or photojpg is any better than them doing it. Maybe I am missing something and don't quite understand how codecs work? Is that logical reasoning that if the GH4 outputs a h.264 file anyway their is no real reason for me to transcode to a different codec (and much larger in file size) when the buyer can do it and achieve the same quality? Either way, like I said my upload speeds are pitiful at the moment and until a provider in my area can offer something better I am stuck with H.264.