OfflineRT, DV PAL and ProRes LT

Dear All,
Because of having another editor working together, I am copying my project and recompressing the media files by using Media Manager.
When I am recompressing, I am not sure if I should choose DV PAL, OfflineRT or ProRes LT. Well, maybe, I should ask if OfflineRT is good enough for my another editor to work, and she needs to do the syncing-up. How much worse is Offline RT than DV and ProRes? Any experience?
Thanks in advacne.
King

Offline RT is 320x240...4:3. DV is, well...DV. 720x480 and DV compression. ProRes LT matches your source frame size, but has the data rate of DV. SO if you are working with HD material, then this is the better option as it keep the frame size, so any graphics or text will be the same size when you reconnect the media back to what you have.
But why do this? Why deal with reconnecting offline footage back to HD and mess with issues that reconnecting can do? Get another drive that is the same size as the one with all the footage, then clone it and give that to the other editor. Same name and no reconnecting issues at all.
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