Workflow between Premiere & Apple Color

Hi, all. I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 on OS X. I am a subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud and I also have Motion on my machine. I have a Windows machine that currently has no relevant software installed.
Our video productions require colour correction, and I can't do that because I'm severely colour blind. I have a mate who can do it but he's in another city. He uses Apple Color. He has Final Cut Pro Suite, and CS 5 (not 6) on Mac.
I want to export my projects in such a way that he can colour correct them and export them so that I can load them back into CS6. I'll probably have to transfer files over the Internet so it would be good if we can make them as small as possible. Any ideas how we can make this work?
Richard

With the options you have all you can really do then is use a codec that is either lossless or visually lossless. You also have to use a codec that will work with his edit system. Which really limits the choices because apple's edit products don't play nice with many different formats.
Obviously what Jim and Shoot have suggested would be better but as you mentioned already you have to play the hand your dealt.
But in the meanwhile I'd start trying to find another solution for the long term. But like I said for the time being you're probably going to have to go with some type of Lossless Quicktime choice since he's using apple based editing software.

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Process: Color [733]
Path: /Applications/Color.app/Contents/MacOS/Color
Identifier: com.apple.color
Version: 1.5.2 (593)
Build Info: Color-5930000~2
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [131]
Date/Time: 2010-06-17 21:31:47.886 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 17500 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 6
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 238 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000008
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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2 com.apple.color 0x0007cf4b ftglobalsstorePreview(char const*, char const*, int, ft_clip*) + 651
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7 com.apple.color 0x00148ec5 ftprojectmanagerload(char const*, char const*, bool) + 1349
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eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x00000000 ecx: 0xa009b4e0 edx: 0x1c56c000
edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0xbfff2a60 ebp: 0xbfff2968 esp: 0xbfff2950
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0x002d51fa cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000008

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