My guess is that your inability to choose SVRT and Hardware Acceleration is because your video card is not on the list of "supported" cards listed within the PD9 REQUIREMENTS section.
Reference Page:
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/requirements_en_US.html
I have an older 2009 ATI 4350HD graphics card. It's not on the list and I can't select SVRT or Hardware encoding in the Produce section either.
You'll find forum members who have "non-supported" cards that
are able to choose SVRT and H.A. within the Produce section of PD9, but the Cyberlink techs who put that page together when PD9 was introduced in 2010 were very specific about graphic cards, operating systems, RAM requirements, etc..
-Allen