Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files to Premiere Pro CS4 (without rastering)

Hello,
I've made some economics graphs in illustrator that i'm importing into premiere.
Premiere pro cs4 doesn't import illustrator files as layers, just a single image.
I exported from illustrator to save as a .psd to maintain the layers.
I then imported the .psd into premiere which created a folder with all the .psd layers.
I dragged the .psd layers onto the timeline so I could animate them with dissolves, but noticed they became pixelated.
I rendered the layers and they still looked pixelated, even after export they were pixelated.
From what I understand, illustrator files become rasterised when you export as .psd.
Is there any way of maintaining the crisp vector graphics created in illustrator when importing into premiere?
Can I avoid rastering the files?
Thank for your help in advance
Kind Regards
Ant

Thanks for your reply and welcome to the forum.
I wondered why premiere was doing such a bad job of anti-aliasing...it turns out that all the .psd files were imported as square pixels instead of rectangular so I right clicked and selected interpret footage, then selected conform to DV PAL1.45.
I assumed that as I set up the original Illustrator document as a video document (720x576) it would maintain the aspect ratio.
Somewhere between exporting to .psd then to premiere the aspect ration somehow changed?
I've found a great tutorial that appears to have a better workflow than the method I was using, by first creating a template in premiere, which can be exported directly to photoshop, maintaing the correct aspect ratio. It means i'll have to draw up the graphs in Photoshop now instead of Illustrator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8HUOAJomao&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

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