1. Looks like the layer that comes illustrator either are contentiously rasterized or didn't interpolate as a movie, if this is the case then AE won't allow you to work with them in a similar fashion as explained - so convert it to PSD doc and continue from there
2. not with the built in tools, for that you'll need RE:Vision Twixtor Pro
3. In that case, I'd recommend to check RE:Vision re:flex
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