Uprezzing sd footage to hd?

Guys,
I shot a wedding with 2 cameras: Canon XHA1 (HD) and Canon XL2 (SD). I have always worked with SD footage in the past in Adobe premiere Pro products. Now as you have figured out, I need to insert the SD footage into my PP CS5 HDV project. I think if I capture my sd footage in a differenet project with the correct SD settings, and then import the footage in the hdv project, the resolution will be wrong. Can you guys please give me insightful suggestions on what is the best (highest quality) way to up rezz or convert my SD XL2 footage into HD? I just want to make it compatible with my XHA1 project settings with highest quality possible. Is there any feature in the new PP CS5 to do this? or is the technology not there yet that cost me thousands of dollars?
Thanks and any help would be appreciated.

I have used BorisFx BCC Uprez filter for
converting 720 x 480 SD to 1440 x 1080 HDV.
It has flexibile settings and includes sharpening
If your SD video clip is good quality the conversion has been good.
This works as a pluggin to either AE of PrPro --but not CS5. If you still have CS4 on your machine it will run in that program even with Windows 7 64 bit (as it runs in 32 bit compatibility mode, just as CS4 does) CS5 is natively 64 bit and the 32 bit 3rd party effects no longer work
The XHA1 SD stream should be able to be capture by PrPro--I do it all the time. This is most likely a camera setting problem, and I can almost predict that you have set the output in the camera menu to be AUTO. This doesn't work you need to set either HDV or SD as appropriate.

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