Rendering AVCHD crashing with Vegas!

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I used Vegas 8.0 for editing along with Architect to author some AVCHD files at least one of which was longer than 10 minutes. The total video was over an hour long, mixture of video clips and JPEG images. I had problems burning a disc successfully and maybe an occasional crash of some sort. I assume you have a lot of disk space on your PC and plenty of RAM. I did find that I had to limit the size of the Vegas files timewise to something relatively short but it was longer than 10 minutes. I then would combine those files into one video with Architect. My biggest question was what format to use for the Vegas output to source into Architect to avoid recompression since the Architect stage would take up to 14 hours to render, a lot of which appeared to be recompression time. I never got a clear answer for that.

Good luck and if you figure out the solution to your problem be sure to post it so the rest of us can be aware of it.