Highest Quality Output settings for creating a DCP

I am editing something in Premiere and After Effects in CS4. My footage is 720p and 23.976fps. What are the optimal output and codec settings so that my movie can be turned into a DCP either by Open DCP or a Post House? I found a tutorial about importing ProRes 422 codecs into Adobe CS6, but unfortunately it didn't work for CS4. What is the best uncompressed codec setting for my project? Thanks

You may get answers in the CS4 forum http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_previous?view=all
>uncompressed codec
One of these SHOULD work with that old version - Lossless/Uncompressed Codecs http://forums.adobe.com/thread/875797

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