Media manager adding frames

i'm trying to export 4 layers of video (rough composite layer, blue screen layer, matte layer and background layer) with media manager. i need to send these shots to compositors to make the final composites. i'm using media manager because it seems like the easiest way to give them what they need as separate files. i want to create new quicktimes of the shots in my sequence at exactly the same length as they appear in my edit (no handles).
when i try to export with media manager, the sequence that it creates is the same as my sequence but the quicktime clips that it creates are not. media manager has somehow added 4 frames to the head of the clip on layer 1 and 9 frames to the head of layer 2. i need for the compositors to be able to line up the layers by just lining up the heads of the shots.
my media manager settings are:
-"copy media referenced by duplicated items"
-"include master clips outside selection" is NOT checked on
-"delete unused media from duplicated items" IS checked ON
-"use handles" is NOT checked on
-"include affiliate clips outside selection" is NOT checked on
-"base media file names on existing file names"
-"duplicate selected items and place into a new project" IS checked ON
-"include nonactive multiclip angles" IS checked ON
footage and sequence are: AJA Kona LHi: 1080psf 23.98 Apple ProRes 422
any suggestions would be much appreciated.
thanks.

Hi Brian,
Thanks for replying.
I am working on an animation edit. The clients send us a master QT with audio. I export the audio for animation lipsync, the animators then send me QTs with the audio I have exported embedded within them. The clients have the original audio and have requested that the QTs we send back contain just picture.
The delivery specs state I need to send a project and media to the client.
There are no audio clips in my timeline apart from the QT sent by the clients. In my edit I add our animations above the client QT and send the sequence. Before, when I was using QTs with audio I was not cutting the audio into the sequence just using the audio from the master QT the clients sent. My new QTs (with no audio) are being dropped onto the timeline on a higher video track but when I export them they add '-v' at the end which does not fit into the clients naming convention.
I hope that made sense, any help is greatly appreciated.
Tom.

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