Migrating from FCP/Mac to a Premiere/Windows: looking for a primer on codecs

I'm a long time FCP7 user, and I've just decided to migrate to Premiere. Having just a assembled a quite decent PC system, I'm not quite lost regarding codecs.
Being very used to ProRes on Apple systems, which is quite frankly the standard and go-to option in my market segment (corporate videos), I'm now wondering what's the go-to option when editing in Premiere/Windows.
I get a lot of media coming from DSLR cameras, so doing the h264->ProRes conversion is what I'm used to. I know Premiere can edit h264 media, but it seems that once effects are stacked up, we start having problems. I also do some work on AE, and FCP round-trips have always been a headache due to gamma shifting and whatnot. I'm hoping migrating to a 100% Adobe workflow will help solve my problems. The thing is I'll still use both Windows and OS X.
What's my best course of action regarding codecs here? Should I just install some version of ProRes on my Windows machine and stick to it, or are there better options? Also, for strict Windows users, what's usually the codec of choice?

I think editing h264 media natively is good, but once I start to stack up effects and transitions I'll get into trouble. It's not an appropriate codec for editing.
As for round-trips with Mac systems, what codec would you recommend?

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