Exporting to After Effects and using Magic Bullet filters

I have a sequence in Premiere Pro CS6 that I have edited.  I have opened this sequence up in After Effects CS6.  I have added several effects filters....then I wanted to send it back to Premiere so I could finish the video.......creating titles...etc.  However I know I am doing something wrong becuase when I try to bring the video from AE to Premiere I can't add it to the timeline.  I tried using "create new sequence" and that didn't work either.  I am new to using AE and this is my first time experimenting with effects and filters.  Not sure where I am going wrong.  Any help will be appreciated.  All I want to do is send my edited video to AE...add the effects....and send it back to Premiere so I can finish it.

The upshot here is that you can only 'send' it one way.  If you start in PP and then send it from there to AE, then whatever you do in AE automatically shows up in PP, so there's no need to 'send' it back to PP.
The only way to 'send' footage over to PP is if it starts out in After Effects.  You can't have AE in the middle, starting and ending with PP.  You start in one, send to the other, and that's the end of the trip.  No more sends.

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