Blurry Illustrator images when zoomed in within AE?

Hi,
I'm animating images I created in Illustrator CS4 using After Effects CS4, and am having a problem with Illustrator images being blurry when I zoom way in using a camera layer within After Effects. I've tried hitting the 'Continuously Rasterize' switch within AE. But when I do that, the camera layer isn't working right because I'm unable to zoom in or out. I'm a relative novice in both these programs, but I'm puzzled by the problem because right now it involves scaling Illustrator layers down and not up, which I thought would be better even if my layer wasn't vector-based. (Someone suggested making sure my layers are vector layers. I assume they are, because I created them as RGB layers within Illustrator. But please let me know if I'm wrong on this point.) Again, I'm scaling these layers down, and not up, so I'm confused by this problem, because my understanding is this kind of thing usually involves scaling layers up. For some context I'm trying to create a shot where I zoom from an extreme CU on a person's face, to an extreme wide shot of the room the person's in.
Any advice on this problem would be hugely appreciated!
Neil

First thing to do is to determine if your "images" are raster or vector. How were they created? Where they photos that were imported into illustrator? Did you draw them using one of the illustrators tools such as the pen tool, or one of the shape tools? If you did the former, scaling up will cause issues like you have. With the latter you can scale up all you want the continuous rasterization will take care of that.
If it is the latter, it may have to do with how the image is in AE. You said you are moving the camera, but what is the image placed on? Do you have 3d enabled so the z axis is available for your objects and camera?
If it is the former, set the resolution of the photo itself so the area that is zoomed in on is at 720x640 or what ever your medium will be. In other words if you plan on zooming in on a photo, your photo has to be greater than the medium it will be displayed on. If the photo is less than that, you will get pixelation.

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