After Effects is shortening my animation

I bring in a 6.6 sec animation (.mov) file into after effects and it becomes 5.11 sec long. I've checked the frame rate of the clip and the comp they are both at 24 fps. Its messing up my comp because it is an animation synced to audio and the audio remains 6.6 sec long. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Without knowing the exact specs of your clip, where it was created, system info, exact comp settings and so on nobody can know. We don't even know your AE version.
Mylenium

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Hello mylenium,
Thank you very much for the link.
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