Technical question about encoding: Experimentation may be needed, but..

I work with a team producing a weekly video for distribution to two other sites. Up until now, we have been capturing (Canon XL2 into FCP on iMac via FW), doing a few quick edits and sending to a DVD via compressor. As an aside, we also have compressor put out a smallish web-version for upload to our website.
We distribute the video DVD for use with a live audience, whose sole engagement with content from us is via video (We are a church). It's working, and has been working for about a year. Minus a few mishaps - mostly human error stuff...
I would consider recommending a move to distributing video as files instead of physical DVDs. The potential advantages I see are:
1. We can encode at a higher quality than DVD
2. No time spent burning the DVD
3. No physical transport of a physical device (made of cheap plastic) - We could upload/download via Dropbox or some similar model.
4. The technician starting up the playback wouldn't have to fight with the DVD-player going to "sleep".
My question for this forum is on the technical side of things. Can we use FCP/COmpressor to actually put out a higher quality video if it's a file to play on a Mac? If so, how? What kinds of encodes should we experiment with?
Thanks all!

Can we use FCP/COmpressor to actually put out a higher quality video if it's a file to play on a Mac?
yes
If so, how?
Simply use Compressor to encode whatever comes out of FCP. There are lots of presets for h.264 based file generation from highly compressed to nearly visually lossless.
What kinds of encodes should we experiment with?
See previous answer.
The key element is all the computers must be able to play h.264 quicktime files. Current Macs will have no issues. And, as long the PC people download and install a current version of Quicktime Player, it is a cross platform compatible format.
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