Upconverting SD to HD

We use 3 Apple Cineman displays for Keynote presentations. We shoot a lot of internal videos in miniDV for now, until we get a high end Panasonic camera w/ P2 Card. Anyway, whats the best way to upconvert footage from miniDV to HD sizes like 1440x1080. With Keynote, we the slides and type look amazing at this resolution, but obviously the video does not due to the 720x480 DV size. Should I use compressor to upconvert? And if so, how should I set it up? Use the Frame Controls and Geometry tabs to do so? I know that won't be true hiDef video, only in pixel size, but how will the video look? Has anyone out there done this yet? Does the video look okay, or really crappy?
Also, we are looking the either a Kona Card or AJA IO or IO HD, how will this help with the conversion process? Will this take the place of Compressor? Or is the IO only for input and not used for output like Compressor is? Any thoughs.
Sorry for the length, but many questions I have, yes!

You have options when you do an upconversion. You can either pillarbox the entire image, meaning that you'll have black bars on the sides of a 4:3 picture, or you can do an extraction of approx. 1/3 of the 4:3 frame to fill a 16:9 frame, or you can stretch to fill the screen. The most common extraction is a center cut, but you could also do a top or bottom cut if the important picture information is in one of those areas of the frame. I've done upconversion through Compressor with decent results. I've also had upconversion done via Teranex and I've used a Panasonic AJ1200 deck to do upconversion. All three produced similar results. The final image will be a little fuzzy.
I personally think that extractions look better than pillarboxing or stretching. Go with Compressor for the cheapest results, just keep in mind that render times can be very long when you are upconverting footage.
Shane and I worked on a show last year that had a ton of upconverted footage. We did a lot of the upconversions in Compressor. He used to have the droplets that we made posted on his site, but I'm not sure where you can find them now. Maybe he'll pop in with a link.

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Upconverting Receiver?

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3. If I do need an additional source for upconversion, is it better to have a receiver or DVD player do it?
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Nowadays, you can get receivers around $400-500 that do the work that $1200 receivers did 2 years ago. Take a look at Onkyo and Denon branded receivers at a local BB with a Magnolia Home Theater. If you're not around one of those, you can still find similar models from Denon in regular Home Theater departments. Keep in mind, the few TVs that actually route dolby digital through optical back to a receiver do not process Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD, formats of sound you're paying to hear on today's blu-ray players and movies.
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Upconverting SD DVDs

Anyway to upconvert SD DVDs using DVD Player? Playback on a HD TV via DVI to HDMI connection. Monitor looks great but DVDs are still 720x480 video. Going full screen only pixelates image. Is there any Mac solution for upconverting SD DVD's to 1080 without having to double or full screen DVD Player?

Not sure I get what you are asking. My Mac mini is hooked up to a 40" 1080p LCD TV and the mini is set to 1920 x 1080 at 60Hz, which looks great on the TV screen (perfect one-for-one pixel mapping). When I play a SD DVD using DVD Player, it is definitely upscaling the video. It looks great! I have a hard time seeing a difference between it and a 720p Comcast broadcast.

MacBook as upconverting DVD player

Does a MacBook - connected directly to a plasma HDTV - offer any advantage over a regular DVD player?
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Macaby wrote:
I played on DVD from my MacBook to my LCD and it did work great. However, the downside of doing so is just not worth it in my opinion.
1. Cord problem. Necessary to hookup cords to TV to do so.
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4. I've been wondering how good a job they do, whether they're a scam or not. Do the cheap ones really beat an older progressive-scan DVD player? Maybe with the HDMI (all digital) connection they do. Also considering a PS3, and that's what got me thinking in the first place. Seems like PS3 = AppleTV+Blu-Ray player+gaming.
5. No question, but see #1. I only started doing this to watch Lost in HD streaming - something not possible with a DVD player - and then I got intrigued by the whole HD and Blu-ray movie thing.
6. Whew, this hasn't happened yet, knock on wood. My daughter managed to squish her MacBook so that the slot narrowed and that caused some trouble but otherwise I haven't had one get stuck.

Upconvertion from labview 5.1 to 2012 - (B)

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Upconvertion from labview 5.1 to 2012 - (A)

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Can FCPX "upconvert" & export DVD video at 960x540?

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