Novice. Help with rendering. It won't save.

New at this so be kind. Using a Mac w/ Mavericks, PE 12. I'm rendering a 45 minute timeline. Takes about 4 hours (aargh!). Looks good, but then I save and either go to another project, or quit PE. When I start back up and open that same project, it hasn't saved my render. Antoher 4 hour wait. Why isn't it saving my rendered project?
Thanks,
Geno

Geno
To what are you referring when you mention rendering?
Are you referring to rendering the Timeline content to get the best possible preview of the Timeline content as it is playing back in the Edit Mode monitor? Or, are you using rendering to refer to export of your Timeline to a file saved to the computer hard drive or burned to disc?
From what you wrote it sounds like you are talking about rendering the Timeline content to get the best possible preview of what you have at the Edit stage. Four hours does sound a bit excessive for the process. But the process does depend on the complexity of the Timeline content and its duration. Some effects like Video Stabilizer can add many minutes to the rendering time in this case.
And, if we are talking about "rendering" for preview purposes, it is not uncommon to close the project with a rendered Timeline (green line over Timeline content) and reopened the project to find an orange line over the content, indicating need for rendering. This has been a long discussed and unanswered issue from time to time over many versions of the program. You will find that the preview files generated by the rendering process still exist in their hard drive save location, even though you are seeing that orange line.
My recommendation in cases like that is to move on if you have previewed those files previously. And, if you need a preview, then re-render either the whole or a selected segment of the Timeline. To do the selective rendering of the Timeline, set the gray tabs of the WorkArea Bar to span just the segment to be rendered.
Much of this is probably new to you and you may wonder what is that person talking about. If that is the case, please do not hesitate to ask for clarification, and I will rewrite until we communicate and you are comfortable with the information. We can go step by step or at whatever pace you prefer.
But, first we need to be in sync on what type of rendering is being addressed here.
Looking forward to your follow up.
Thanks.
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