After Effects rendering black and Adobe Media Encoder previewing black screen

Hello, I am trying to render a short animation where I created shapes from a vector image and animated them. When I export the file through either the Render Queue or Adobe Media Encoder it is displaying a blank black image.  Through other forum posts I read a workaround of adding a solid below as it is not rendering the background except I am looking to have the background be an Alpha layer so it's transparent. When adding to the render queue I select "Animation" and "RGB+Alpha" using default export settings aside from that. None of the layers are guide layers either and video is enabled in export. I noticed this only occur after an update and the file converted where I've been having other issues as well. I'm running OSx BigSur on a mid 2014 body Macbook Pro, would the update and my OSx have any effect on what's occuring here? I had to uncheck Enable Hardware Accelerated Decoding for another issue I was having with playback.