Poor playback of AfterEffects comp in PP5.5

I'm throwing this out to the post Yoda's to give me a better workflow or tell me what I'm doing wrong.
I'm colour grading a few personal projects using Colorista2 but that plugin only works properly in After Effects. My workflow has been:
Edit in PP5.5
Import Premiere Pro Project into After Effects 5.5
Apply Colorista2 and grade all the clips
Save After Effects project (.aep)
Import the .aep file into Premiere and drop the comp onto a timeline.
The result is that I'm getting playback frame rates of .25-1fps unless I render it out. Source files are either 100Mb/s MXF files or Red R3D 2K/4K media (red rocket card is installed on system).
I'm getting the same playback speed of After Effects comps if I 'replace with after effects comp'.
Is this to be expected or is there something I can do better?
Cheers!

Is this to be expected or is there something I can do better?
Expected. Dynamic Link is more about accessibility and flexibility than speed. Basic comps, like simple text animations, will often play in real-time, but a processor-intensive effect like Colorista will slay that. Add it to hefty media like 100Mbps MXFs or R3D, and you can fuggedaboutit

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