# Stop Trimming of MOV file conversions
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/stop-trimming-of-mov-file-conversions/1414
**Category:** General Support / Questions
**Created:** [February 11, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/stop-trimming-of-mov-file-conversions/1414 "2018-02-11T05:42:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@bbqmatt](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/bbqmatt)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/stop-trimming-of-mov-file-conversions/1414/1 "2018-02-11T05:42:32Z")
Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but MCEBuddy is automatically truncating the beginning of my video files. I’m just converting H.265 MOV files to H.264 MP4 and it removes the first 3-8 seconds of each file. Why is this happening? how can I stop it?
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/stop-trimming-of-mov-file-conversions/1414/2 "2018-02-11T15:21:16Z")
> [@How to Fix Initial 6-8 Seconds of Recording Missing/Cut after Conversions](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/how-to-fix-initial-6-8-seconds-of-recording-missing-cut-after-conversions/76):
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> Starting 2.4.9 MCEBuddy won’t skip any part of the video by default Instructions for 2.4.8 and older This is by design and happens because the profile is setup to skip the first few seconds. Many videos have corrupted starting points hence as a precaution the first few seconds are skipped. To correct this you need to make 2 changes: Open mcebuddy.conf, under the section ffmpegbackupremux remove the -ss 5 from all the lines Open profiles.conf, find your profile and remove -ss 3 and --start…
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/stop-trimming-of-mov-file-conversions/1414/3 "2018-05-25T20:35:06Z")
Starting 2.4.9 MCEBuddy won’t trim any videos, update to the latest 2.4.9 BETA version and let us know if you have any issues.
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### Author:  [@bbqmatt](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/bbqmatt)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/stop-trimming-of-mov-file-conversions/1414/4 "2018-05-29T15:42:08Z")
I will check it out and let you know.