Video cropped with track matte changing size on export?

Hi there! I have a layered video with a background image for sidebars. I used a white square as a track matte to crop out some of the central video.
Now, the odd thing is that the footage is cropped more heavily in the exported file than it is in my premiere previews.
Because it's showing up perfectly fine in the previews, I'm finding it very difficult to troubleshoot the problem through trial and error. What could be causing this discrepancy between previews and my exported footage?
Edit: Actually, now that I'm looking at them next to each other, the colors are kind of messed up too. Is that related?
Message was edited by: Christopher Jacob

I have apparently fixed the problem. If anyone else happens on a similar issue, I selected the matte layer and changed it's size through the motion effect. I shrank it down and then brought it back up to the correct size. For some reason after that it exported correctly. Yay!

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