gotcha
if you want to bring it in to AFX, take the mov in QT and export it as a quicktime with a codec like animation.
i know QT could read swfs, but i dont think you can bring that in to AE ( though im not sure i ever tried it)
you used to be able to export as a quicktime movie from flash, where it was a real raster based quickime.
that you can bring in to AE, so maybe thats what you remember working…
who is that masked man…