Why does none of my "scribbling" in After Effects show up when I render my footage?

[mraja97]

So I am fairly new to After Effects and I've been trying to follow a few tutorials online on how to make use of the "scribbling" effect on music videos. I followed this tutorial: Animated Music Video Scribble Effect in After Effects! (Tutorial / How to) (CC 2017) - YouTube

BUT I skipped the premier pro part because I don't have it yet (I will in a couple of hours)

So first of all I have been editing a 44 second video that I imported to AE, then I created a new layer and activated the brush and paint on the side bar and started "drawing" on the video frame by frame, (total brush strokes were 2192) - but its been very hard to work since its been very "laggy", choppy, slow and when I finally think I am done and I export it, none of my brush strokes show up on the video! Please help - I have spent the past 5 hours on this and I'd just like some answers at this point. I'll appreciate anything, thank you!

Is there any way I can save my work and then just add it on top of the video again as a layer? (I attached a picture of what I've been working with below, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.. that could hopefully be fixed?)

[Roei Tzoref · Accepted solution]

you need to move your layer into the right place.

highlight the layer and press alt+Home to make it start at the first frame.

[hunters2642993]

where does the layer need to be in order for it to render? i have the exact same problem and i don't find anything besides this post.

my life isn't saved yet ;-;

[mraja97]

YOU HAVE OFFICIALLY SAVED MY LIFE AND MY PRECIOUS TIME.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[Roei Tzoref]

Saving lives is all in a day's work here at the forum.

[Glenala5CEF]

hi umm, my scribble effect is working as every layer I do a line it stays there while I'm trying to finish it on another frame so it just looks like a big line over the mv I'm doing how can I fix this?

[Glenala5CEF]

isn't sorry T_T