Quote: The Novice is here again. Can you tell me the proper (flow) way to render video. It seems that when I am in the edit mode and trying to edit my video, it goes into rendering mode automatically without any action from me. Is this normal and am I completely off base. Thanks for any advice,

Do you have a NVidia video Card?

Have you installed the latest Patch for Powerdirector 12?
http://www.cyberlink.com/support/powerdirector-ultra/patches_en_US.html

It is a known problem with some NVidia Drivers.
Check the NVidia web site for the latest WHQL driver, NO beta.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx

Answer to your question "Is it normal?", No it is not normal.

You can pre-render sections by choice, select the area with the orange tab on the side of the scrubber, Render Preview.

The correct way to render (Produce) a video is click the Produce tab at the top of the interface. Choose your video format and resolution.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.