I know this was forever ago, so this post is for people like me who are looking for an answer to your question
you have to turn on the continually rasterize option in after effects, and then there is no problem any were else down the line.
https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f49.html
there are the instructions on what this switch actualy does and how to turn it on