Please Help - AVI 4.5Gb Movie is unstable!

[MikePresneill]

I want to to put a 3 Minute CG Animation onto a SVCD.

Using Adobe Premiere I have CREATED a 4.5Gb uncompressed AVI movie which when played goes unstable towards the end of the AVI movie.

What better AVI format or file format could I use which would be more stable but could ALSO be read by TMPg for eventual conversion to MPEG 2 ?

Under Adobe Premiere is there a better movie format which I could output to which TMPg CAN read ?

People mention AVI2 (OpenDML) but can NOT see it under Adobe Premiere to output to.

Any help VERY much appreciated.

Thanks

Mike

[mijman]

HOLY POOP ON A STICK!!! 3 minutes and you're at 4.5 GB!? What resolution are you coding this thing in? (Cripes, I record 20 minute uncompressed AVIs at 640x480, and only come in at 2GB!) Is it possible to shrink the res down to something more manageable before making an AVI out of it?
See, the problem you're having is that good old AVI size cap, so if you could get it down to 3 Gig or something, you should be all right. (Hmmm...is there a size restricion on Macs?)
The point is, when you make a SVCD, you're going to shrink it down to 480x480 anyway.

[mijman]

I just read on another thread that TMPGenc won't handle files over 2GB, so more incentive