Exporting or saving AE motion paths

Hello all,
A slightly odd request, and I have a feeling it's not going to be possible, but... is there a way to export or save motion paths out of AE? Just like bringing vectors in from Illustrator, but in reverse.
I have a very large comp which I'm moving a camera around. I'd like to take the camera's motion path into illustrator or photoshop and create artwork based on the shape, so that when I bring it back in and add it to the comp it fits the camera's movement perfectly. I know I should probably have doe it the right way round to start with, but the cmera move is/was based on too many variables to lock it down at that stage in the project.
Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Copy&Paste works both ways... Motion paths can be pasted as masks and even as paths in PS and AI. Just make sure to set your clipboard options in AI to AICB, not PDF...
Mylenium

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If you like this Feature Request, please copy/paste on Adobe's Feature Request page to get your voice heard: www.adobe.com/go/wish
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
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