Using BCC Uprez in FCP - help, please!

Can anyone give me SIMPLE instructions on how to uprez mini-DV footage in an HD timeline? The only tutorial I find is rather complicated, but it is giving instructions to compare 2 methods. I'm confused.
Has anyone got a 1, 2, 3, 4 method?
We are hoping to take an entire feature shot in mini-DV and uprez it to an HD standard. The source files are NTSC 720x480. What HD size would you recommend as well? We do not want so much to make it a lot bigger as we want to make the image much sharper.
Thanks so much.
confused
"Z"

Hi Shane, hi all,
This is my first post on the forum and perhaps I should start a new discussion, but this question comes right off of this discussion, so here goes:
I have no doubt that what you say about DV quality being DV quality and that's the best it will be, but: how is it that dv can be uprezed sufficiently to be transferred to film and projected? I've seen some nice films shot progressive with the DVX blown up (most recently 'Girls Rock', great documentary). It just makes me think there must be a 'best' way to do this. Which brings me to the terranex: is what's special about it the speed it works, the results, or both? I've heard it said (or seen in written), that compressor can do the same thing, or close enough, but that it just takes a very long time. I've also seen it written that the terranex does a much better job.
I have a short 'film' shot on the DVX in 24pa, it's edited in 24fps timeline, and I'd like it to be able to look as good as possible if somebody throws it up on an HDTV. I still have to turn it into MPEG2 and burn a regular DVD, so whatever I would do to 'uprez it' wouldn't that simply be lost in the process? So do I just leave it alone and cringe as the HDTV does it's own scaling? Or is there an advantage to running it through compressor and turning it into 720p? I.e., let the software do the scaling?
While I'm rambling, is there an advantage to converting it to prores first? And should I make it uncompressed 8 or 10 bit before converting it to prores? So many questions, so few computer cycles...

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