So, the general way this is supposed to work is a project that meets the requirements for lossless processing will be processed and it will happen. So if more than 10% (or whatever it is) of the project has to be encoded then VideoPad says "forget that" and won't let you.
But it's fine for a few little cuts, or subtitles. This project is 27 minutes, there are 0 video cuts, and it has two text clips; the first one is 2 seconds long, second one is 4 seconds long although that's not important. Basically I am just adding a sound track.
If I delete the second text clip it renders. The four second subtitle. If I move the text clip 4 seconds left (earlier) it renders. It just won't render when I actually need the subtitle to appear. Settings make no difference (unless I want to encode the whole video and I don't).
And that's really aggravating. I guess my video's expression will be silenced by VideoPad's odd requirements that I not say anything at that point in the video I wanted to mention something.