Real slow mo using HDV-SD50P codec?

Hi,
I need to incorporate material shot in HDV-SD50 into a DVCPro HD 1080i50 project for a smooth slow motion sequence. What I am wondering is, whether I can do this in Compressor, and what my best solution is for minimising quality loss when including SD material in a HD project?
How do I take this into my existing FCP sequence which is on the DVCPro HD 1080i50 setting?
The finished project will have to be blown up even further to 1920x1080, so I need to consider this as well.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks

I wouldn't change applications against a deadline.
Slow motion is not an easy effect to do in post unless you shot more frames per second than you needed for standard speed. Making 30 frames a second into 60 frames requires each frame to be printed twice. What were your expectations or what have your tried before?
Especially with HDV, which starts out so heavily compressed, by the time it gets slomo'd and transcoded back to MPEG2 again, yeah, I imagine it's gonna look pretty bad. You can obtain some expensive software to do the optical flow pixel interpretation without buying FCS2 but that's up to your client's needs for smooth slow motion. Rendering optical flow, we've heard, takes for freakin' ever, even on the best machines.
Some HDV users will chime in over the next few hours or days with more helpful advice.
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