DVCPRO HD codec out of (Apple) Color

[FUBARFilms]

If I'm editing on Final Cut with DVCPRO HD files and want to grade on Apple's Color program what would be the best way to go back to FCP once grading is finished. The program says you can use the original codec (DVCPRO HD in this case) or ProRes (HQ also) and Uncompressed 10Bit 4 2 2 and Uncompressed 8Bit 4 2 2. Now what Color does is creates new video files with the grade so which codec would give me the best quality coming out of Color for my final video master file?

 

[dougspice]

Uncompressed 10-bit will unquestionably give you the "best" quality, but I recommend that you try ProRes instead. You won't be able to tell the difference visually and will save many gigabytes in disk space.

Don't go back to DVCPro HD if you can avoid it; it's not a post-production format.