Looking through the thread to see if I could offer anything that hasn't been yet -

From earlier responses you gave, it seems you may have moved the source footage to your SSD and are also rendering to your SSD. Have you tried rendering to a different local drive?

If the new stopping point seems to have parked itself at 74%, identify that clip and see if it can be rendered to an intermediate format. If you have already assured yourself that there is no problem with the source footage, (even if you successfully rendered a DVD, it's worth making sure that something hasn't corrupted the file since that time) I'd recommend checking your system logs to see if some "event" or "warning" is found at the times rendering stops. I've tracked down system problems in the past that I had misidentified as Vegas errors.

BAM ! Found it. Took your advice Old Smoke; becmae more methodical. I watched the partial file that had been rendered and made note where it ended (froze). Went to the source file and sure enough... there was a 1-second freeze/glitch at the same point where the render failed.

So, don't know if it was a drop out in the recording, or in the transfer of files to the PC.
I will edit around and seen what happens. Thanks again for putting up with my novice-ness!

I just sold my HF G30 yesterday, I got a FDR-AX100 now. I would record in 1080 60p not 60i. The G30 does 1080 60p in MP4 or you shoot 30p if your footage doesn't contain much motion; avoid interlaced if you can. 60p can be easily converted to anything you need like, 30p for internet and 60i for DVD or BD. It also converts nicely to 1280x720 30p for internet and 60p for BD too.

@ OldSmoke

HF G30:Out of interest why did record in MP4?

I tend to use .mts (1920x1080 50P) and then batch convert with an Edius tool(AVCHD2HQ) to 1280x720P. This then matches the files from a hacked Panasonic GH2. My timeline is of course 1280x720P.
Final output to BD.

Geoff

@ hometechc Glad you are sorted.

MP4 has the heigher bit rate and it was easier to convert to 720 30p for internet on my machine with GPU acceleration. My 2xGTX580 had a blast with it. Now I am shooting XAVC-S and that is a lot more compute intensive, especially the 4K version.

diverG... when you say 1920x1080-50P, you mean 59.94P right? Cus this is throwing me off a bit since on my G30, 50P is not an option.

And what is the advantage to recording in this format, then batch converting?
Thx

50p is double PAL, so he is in PAL land. Not an option on the G30 for US because we are NTSC.

The G30 will record at 1280x720P but the bit rate is too low. At 1920x1080P there are 2 options. MP4 at around 34Mbs or .MTS at say 24mbs.
For me the most convenient BD standard is 1280x720P. I use 50P you use 60P.
My 2nd camera is a GH2 which does produces 1280x720p(50P) at around 60mbs. I find it best to standardise my video so that there is no mixed footage on the timeline.
I could convert the GH2 video to 1920x1080P to match the G30 but I would still need to render/downsize to a 1280x720P file to present to DVDA to make the BD.
The big advantage to me is that by dropping the G30 video to 1280x720 is that there are less pixels (50%) on the timeline to manipulate so the final render is much quicker. I have tried 1920x1080i as a standard but I simply cannot see any advantage and it defeats the object of having cameras that shoot progressive.

The AVCHD2HQ convertor uses Lanczos3 for downsizing and to my mind is better that using Vegas to do that job. Each to his own I guess. You just need to find time to experiment and develop a workflow that suites you.

Best of luck G

Thanks a bunch, you and Old Smoke have been a "learning experience".

Sorry, one last question Old Smoke or anyone... the clip causing the issue has a .5-1 sec. glitch in the middle of it. Do you know of a utility that would "repair" the clip. (.mts)? Thanks again!

What kind of glitch? Is it a very long event that the camera split into two files? If so, re-import via USB or with the Vegas Device Explorer; that way the two files will be stitched together properly.