# Paintbrush won't work in Movie Clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paintbrush-wont-work-in-movie-clips/237474>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 30, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paintbrush-wont-work-in-movie-clips/237474 "2007-08-30T17:00:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@tophat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tophat)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paintbrush-wont-work-in-movie-clips/237474/1 "2007-08-30T17:00:38Z")

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I can use the paintbrush tool on the main timeline, but if i try doing anything in a movie clip, it won’t draw it unless i draw a large area, in which case it will only draw certain parts of it. I don’t have another group, movie clip, or graphic covering the entire area that would just cause it to look covered. I am sure it’s not drawing. I also can’t change the color in properties, as it only stays as no fill. I can change the fill using the toolbar, but it still outputs nothing. I believe I have encountered this before, like 2 years ago, but don’t remember the settings to fix this 🅰… If someone has a solution that would be great 🙂