Cineware Limitations (cloner w/ external compositing tag, camera morph tag)

Hi!
I've made the switch to AE CC 2014 and have been trying to use cineware instead of working with an AEC file. I have ran into some issues though. If I animate a camera in C4d using the Camera Morph Tag, The animation doesn't get extracted into AE with Cineware. This also happens if I add an external compositing tag to a cloner object. Both of these worked with the AEC file, but do not work with Cineware. Whats the deal?!

The Camera Morph uses Python/ XPresso under the hood and needs to be baked. The external compositing tag is somehow borked. You can try to clone it to a Matrix Object with Nulls. This may work.
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