Importing Maya cameras in AE 5.5 issues?

I've done this a bunch of times, but I am 0 for 2 with AE CS 5.5. CS 5.5 is close, the nulls move correctly with the camera, but are off the mark and scaled closer together then they should be. I tried scaling up the scene, as recommended in other related posts by parenting the MAYA scene to a locator and scaling it up, but I stil get the exact same results. Any tricks? I just looked at two different projects I did, one in CS 5 and one in CS 5.5. All settings were the same, scale was approximately the same, + or - 20%, camera backs were the same, etc. and the CS 5 worked, CS 5.5 did not....

I just downloaded the update 5.0.1.4 and I still have my Importing tab under the advance preferences.

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I tried adjusting the scale in Maya from centimeters to meters but it was the same result in AE.
Naturally so. AE treats 1 unit = 1 pixel, regardless of what that unit is. In order to obtain proper scale, you would truly have to scale the entire scene, e.g. by putting it under a Null in Maya, scaling that Null and then freezing the transforms. Scaling in Ae can be achieved with expressions by simply typing value*1000 or whatever scale factor you wanan use in the relevant properties. However, the camera may then be wrong, since simply scaling it changes the projection matrix. you will have to tweak the zoom and filmback to compensate...
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hey somebody knows how to import a maya´s camera and locators in motion 3?
im doing some heavy post work and definitively import the camera from my 3dscene will help me to get the final look that i need (and reduce my render time)
i know how to do that in after efects but i need the replicator and the 3d particles, and render the 3d particles in maya is not a good option
PD: i apologise for my english (my navite language is spanish)

Ok, may be a bit complicated. First your best would be to render your 3D particles in Maya separetly using the hardware render.( not mental ray or maya software) then composite in Shake or motion.
but I tried to match maya camera movement in Motion and had good results.
http://homepage.mac.com/gguindi/FileSharing42.html
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