Adding lumetri to a given layer stretches it out, not the first time adding lumetri causes a glitch in footage

Every now and then i’ll try to use lumetri on a jpg or footage in After Effects and i’ve seen it do destructive things to the footage or image. Today I added lumetri to a jpg on layer 2 and it stretched it out. see attached screenshots (“before” and “after” images below to see what I mean). so i precomped the jpg and then tried to apply lumetri and it immediately stretched out again. Not sure what is causing this but I’ve seen lumetri do weird stuff to my footage before. cant say how long i’ve noticed this issue. but i’ve stopped using lumetri altogether because of this issue surfaces a few times and now i just use colorista. I’m on After EFfecst 25.6.4 (build 3). Sometimes i have to hand off these projects to a company that isnt using 2026 so I have to use 2025. pretty sure ive seen this issue in other versions too. Mac oS Tahoe 26.3.1 (a). adding a simple lumetri filter to a layer should not be causing it do such wild things. hope this can be fixed.