QT movie imported to FCP Studio to make HD.

I have a client who has created a digital art piece that he needs in HD. He created the images in photoshop and used a cheap windows editing system to make the slideshow.mov. He now needs it in HD and I'm wondering if can take the .mov file he has and import that in FCP and export to HD. Will that change quality? Or do I need to completely re-create the project and export to HD in compressor. I'm new to HD...have been working in SD for years now and don't understand the concept of true HD yet. Help me please.

I did some research and you can up-scale SD to HD 1080 or 720 in compressor but this plug by red giant is very useful. It is a quick fix and looks really sharp. For $99 it was a steal for me and gives me the capability to do it again easily. Compressor didn't do a very good job of keeping its sharpness from the original SD file. The image begins to get fuzzy when up-scaling to 1080. Thanks again!

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