Upscaling video in Podcast Producer

Hi all,
We have some videos that we would like to convert into Podcasts. Unfortunately these videos were originally recorded in a very low resolution. Podcast Producer handles them fine except it keeps them in the source resolution, which means the watermarks, ticker etc is also scaled down.
My question is, is there a way, either as part of the Podcast Producer workflow or before it, to easily scale up video in order to ensure the watermarks aren't scaled down?
Thanks in advance,
Erik

Could you cue them all in Handbrake for a batch job first and customize an output that targets the size/bitrate you want and then process the output in PP?
That said, you may want to do one first to test as you're going from low-resolution -> higher-than-intended resolution -> workflow compression.

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