Loss of animation when importing .swf to AE

I've made an animation in Flash (CS3) of a character who raises it's arm with a duration of 4 seconds. I'm trying to add this animation over live movie footage by importing it to AE (CC 2014). However, the animation is static after importing it. The character is imported, but the animation is lost.

from After Effects Help regarding SWF import:
"Interactive content and scripted animation are not retained. Animation defined by keyframes in the main, top-level movie is retained."

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> I maintain a site for a photographer and as he added
more images the
> SWF got to be very large, so I split up the site and
used a main page
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I found that
> all my clean crisp images become dull when imported but
still look
> sharp in the SWF itself. I tied to find all the JPEG
settings and
> push them up but still with no luck. Does anybody have
any insight to
> why this is happening?
>

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