You can select a few clips in the timeline and do File > Dynamic Link (something like that, I dont remember the exact menu names – I’m not at my editing computer now) and that will open them up in AE. You can also copy and paste between the two programs.
If you were on CS4, you could select the files you want to put into AE and right click and select SEND TO AE or MAKE AE COMP (again, I dont remember the exact name). But what I would do is duplicate the clips cuz once you send it into AE as a COMP, it combines all the footage into ONE instance in the timeline or one “clip.” So duplicate the footage, place it on top, and send the top clips to AE, JUST in case.
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