Importing Avid AAF into Premiere (or After Effects)

Hi there,
I'm trying to figure out a workflow for reading consolidated AAF files from Avid in Premiere (or After Effects). I found a plug-in that apparently does this for Premiere off the Adobe website, but every time I attempt importing it prompts me with "unsupported file format". What I'm really trying to do is open an Avid project, pull specific shots with 2 second handles with sequence timecode embedded & bring into After Effects for adding visual effects and motion graphics. AAF would be the easiest way to bring this out of Avid with sequence timecode & proper handles, but I'm not quite sure how to get it working on the other end. Any suggestions or tips would be helpful! Apologies if this topic has already been covered. For reference I am working with the latest updated versions of both Avid & Creative Cloud.
Craig

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Any chance you've solved this?

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