Log and Transfer. Red Exclamation Mark part way through ingesting

Hello. I have tried to search through the various previous issues raised re the red exclamation marks but couldn't find a solution to my exact scenario.
All seems to be fine ie connect camera (Panasonic SDT750 - recording at HG level, not 1080/50p option) and L&T sees the clips and I can start ingesting. But after a while it stops and I get the dreaded red mark. Could it be to do with the size of the clip, which is around 1hr 30mins? I say that as I tried adding in and out points to just capture a 30 second portion and it all worked fine ie got the half blue disc show up. On System Settings I have this pointed to an external drive with 1.4TB of space, and I have about 45GB free on my Mac Hard Drive.
I need the space on the SD card today for something so have deleted it, first copying all the contents over onto a folder on the Ex Drive and deleted the card, so hopefully can revisit later.
Am I missing something really obvious here, or do I need to think about only ingesting, say, half hour periods at a time? Many thanks.

Thank you everyone for your comments/suggestions. I have been looking into each and experimenting before posting back. Re each in turn:
Tom - CMD-I info says the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Al - Limit capture boxes are not ticked. I trashed com.apple.finalcutexpress.plist, repaired permissions and re-booted.
skalicki - I had seen that post and thought that had cracked it as I had previously only been able to ingest a couple of minutes of footage, but on changing to plain stereo it seemed to be going ok, but then stopped after about 15 minutes instead. I did have about 45GB free on my hard drive, but I have now done some housekeeping and have about 96GB.
Randy - resetting the in point seemed to have some effect bizarrely, whether it was just this or in combination with trashing prefs i'm not sure, but now I am able to ingest about 30 minutes of footage (I tried an hour but this failed).
So currently I am proceeding with the project by ingesting footage in 30 minute portions at a time, which is working for now. But this doesn't seem right as a solution. What about:
Is there maybe somewhere else there could be a setting limiting capture.
Might using a card reader instead of the camera possibly help.
The disk to which Easy Setup is being told to save the footage is also used for Time Machine. Should I maybe turn Time Machine off in case it is trying to do 2 things at the same time and doesn't like it?
Thanks again...
Time Machine?

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Thanks,
Jesse

You have to download/install the Quicktime codec (Final Cut Studio 2 REDCODE plugin) as well as the RED Log & Transfer plug-in and make sure you meet minimum OS/software configurations for your Intel Mac. I don't recall having to create a setup first; it's always just worked like a piece of cake for me. You might try creating a custom setup: if you're working with 4k source clips, you want a size of 2048 x 1024 (2:1) and you'll be transcoding to Apple ProRes 422 HQ. If your RED was shot 2k, your aspect ratio can be 2:1 or 16:9. In log & transfer, when you navigate to the folder with your R3D files, they should show up in the list with thumbnails. In Import Preferences,uncheck "Remove advanced pull-down and duplicate frames" and select the RED plugin and transcode to Apple ProRes 422. Selected clips can be played, in and outs entered, logging notes, etc. Once added to the Queue,they'll start transcoding. The P2 problem might be because you need to reselect P2 as the source in the Log & Transfer import preferences. Hope this helps.
Paul Kalbach

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