Error using Detail-preserving Upscale module in After Effects

I'm wanting to try and use the upscale module to upscale a video from 1080p to 4k, but it keeps crashing. Whenever I try, it'll seem to be trying for a few minutes, but then I get the error message "After Effects can't continue: An output module stopped responding. The file may be damaged or corrupted." But this doesn't make any sense because I know the video (a 30 second clip) plays just fine.

You haven't told us much to help with troubleshooting. We'll need to know EXACT version number of AE (not "CC 2014", but actual 13.2.0.49-style version number), format of clip, codec of clip, and lots more!
FAQ: What information should I provide ?

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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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Thank you.

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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:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8623/16158021066_e52966ff22_o.jpg
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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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When I make a Detail-preserving Upscale effect on after effects CC do you think it's useful to increase bitrate to help preserving detail or I can maintain the original bitrate because it will not change nothing in the processus ?
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I have avchd 1920x1080p 28 MBitrate clips , and I want to upscale them to 4096x2304 (4K) , when exporting to queue or media encoder can I preserve the original bitrate 28 Mbps or should I increase to higher bitrate (like 50 Mbps) to help the detail preserving?

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