Timecode

I am asked to render a short film for a publishing/broadcasting company and they require a time code 1:00:00:00. How do I provide it? and how do I render the footage with this timecode on premiere pro cs6? What would be the highest quality possible codec/exporting options I should use for this?
I would really appreciate an early reply from you experts out there, since my deadline is this Monday!
Thanks a lot!

Thanks for your speedy reply. I tried that already and the timecode did change to 01:00:00:00 but after rendering it, when I play the clip, shouldnt the time start at 1:00 ? right now it starts at 0:00.
They need a pro res 422 HQ, so I first need to render this file to some sort of a lossless file (not sure which), then change it somewhere else to pro res because to the best of my knowledge premiere pro does not have this option directly.
Thanks again for your input

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