Best Export Format

I edited an standard def movie in Premiere Pro CS3 that a distributor wants to sell. They are requesting a copy of the movie in Digital Betacam. I've found companies that will dub to that format but I'm not sure of the best format to export from CS3 for the dub. I would guess that it would be uncompressed as as close to natural footage as possible. Please tell me what export type would be the best.
I've also purchased Premiere Pro CS5. If there is a better export format with it, I can re-edit it in CS5, but I'd rather not do that.
Thank you in advance!

>found companies that will dub
You should ask the individual companies what they want
The "default" for SD at the likely same quality as your source (except, you don't describe your source codec) is DV AVI Type 2 with 16bit 48khz sound
That codec takes about 13gig per hour... uncompressed with a different codec will take a lot more space
But, again, don't ask us... ask the company you select to create the Digital Betacam

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