Fixing AV clips that have uneven out points

For some reason, After Effects CS5 exported Premiere Pro projects often have audio clips that are a few frames longer than its associated video track.
Is there a way just to adjust the audio track's out point without unlinking them first? I've been using the razor blade to cut it even, delete the extra bit, then drag out of the outpoint again. Kind of clumsy, but it works.

Depending on the Export settings (both from AE, and PrPro), the block sizes on some Audio formats will differ very slightly, than the accompanying Video file. The differences are usually very slight, but can cause problems, similar to what you are encountering.
What are the Audio and Video formats and their settings?
Not saying that this is your cause, but it happens fairly often, and will usually show up in Encore.
Good luck,
Hunt

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