Will FCP help me make a true HD movie?

I'm an electronics retailer. I had the idea to capture HD video from my antenna with my elgato EYETV 500 and take intro sequences and varrious materials and put them into a HD movie I could loop to play on my sales floor. Currently I have created a loop with iMove HD 6 and it looks pretty good using the DVCPro setting but I think it could be better. My question is, one, is there a better compression setting to use for HD, and two, would FCP 5 help me much with this project. Just would like to gather some info before dropping $1299.00 on software. Thanks for the help.
P.S. Size is no issue as long as it can be played back from a harddrive.

All captured video plays back from a hard drive. Just so you know.
BUT...the best format of HD you are going to be able to get on a system with a secodary internal hard drive as your scratch disk, or a firewire 800 drive, is DVCPRO HD. Beyond that you are getting into uncompressed HD, and that realy required SATA Raids or Fibrechannel Raids.
Ho will you play this back to the TVs? DVI? DVCPRO HD will most likely be the best you can get.
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