AVI clips from my digicam need rendering?

Maybe this is a newbie question, I just don't know. My video source is a digicam that produces AVI files. I can bring these into FC Express just fine, I can play them in real time in the Viewer pane. I then drag a clip(s) into the Canvas to create my final video, and when I press Play in the Canvas I get the "Unrendered" message. I'm not applying any effects, just assembling clips. So why can my computer play back the clips fine, but it seems to think it needs to Render before it will play back in the timeline? Thanks.

AVI, or Audio Video Interleave, is an old PC standard for digital video. This file type is no longer officially supported by Microsoft. FCE doesn't work natively with avi files which is why you need to render them.
You'd be better off using a utility like MPEG Streamclip to convert your avi files before you bring them into FCE. Otherwise, you'll be doing LOTS of rendering. Streamclip can be downloaded at
www.squared5.com/

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