Detail-Preserving Upscale Effect

Hi all:
This was the effect I have been waiting for - as I am working on a Lacrosse highlight video - and some of the footage was not zoomed in when it was shot (AVCD 1440x1080 29.97 fps).
I have tried the new effect on a clip, and cannot get a much better outcome than when I just scaled the clip up in PPro. Just trying to have clear footage without halos/ringing effect...
I have watched the short video about the effect - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-at-ibc-2013/after-effects-cc-detailpreserving-upscale/
And also read this short help piece on the effect - http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/detail-preserving-upscale-effect.html
Neither of which have really addressed upscaling/zooming in on video - and which adjustments to the effect will give the desired result.
Is there anything else out there yet for me to read/watch? Does anyone have any pointers for me?
Thanks for any help you can provide - as always
Kim

my comment is that I am in early stages of researching this detail preserving effect and have not seen the links you have posted above. Nice. I did see another post and one of the staff posted a link, maybe same one - never seen it either (yet).
My plans with the effect is for HD material panned and zoomed for SD - to upscale that SD into HD. Some of the HD would not be panned and zoomed and would still have the HD capabilities, but other footage is zoomed 200% (doubled).
So, you are from November I see - you must be a pro by now. Don't worry, not asking for advice on something I have not even tried yet. I am still in the early stages and hope you have progressed with your upscaling abilities.

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My workflow seems to work, except I'm not quite getting the correct aspect ratio at the end. I'm getting an extra 5 pixels on the bottom and top of my image so it's being squished by a total of 10 pixels. I have uploaded a screen capture to demonstrate this. In case the image preview doesn't work here's a Flickr URL:
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Thanks for the reply Mylenium. Typically I do separate operations like this using pre-composing but I found it made no difference so I removed that step in my original workflow so save work.
I'm not sure what "crooked HDV/ IMX values" means, can you elaborate?
If you mean my frame size of 960x720 this is the minimum that YouTube will need for a 4:3 video to generate a 60p video. They don't want 4:3 videos encoded in 16:9 wrappers and they have good reasons for this.
I'll say for the sake of simplicity to forget all about the 60p conversion here and focus on the 4:3 non square PAR conversion using the DPU (detail preserving upscale). I was able to accomplish this but it requires me re-scaling the video in After Effects first... to either 640x480 or 720x540 square pixel... but I'm just trying to avoid this additional scaling operation.

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Am I missing something?
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My aplogies...
I am runnnig the lastes Version of After Effects CC with the most current update.
Windows 7. Also fully updated
When I type a search for the detail preserving upscale effect it is not there.
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My cloud membership is in good standing and when I check to see if AE is current with it's update it show as "up to date"

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