Final Cut 3.5 Eport to .avi won't play on PC

Hi All,
I have recently purchased a Mac and am new to Final Cut Express being a PC user for many years. I have made a movie in FInal Cut Express and want to put it on my PC running After Effects to touch it up.
However, when I export the avi file it wont play on my PC??
I have hundreds of video codecs and have never been unable to play avi before. Additionally I have also tried the uncompressed export function using quicktime file type but that won't load on my PC either??
If some could help that would be great!!

I'm having the same problem. We are trying to export some short videos to play on a Tricaster Pro (XP based that reads AVI files) and all we get is a blank screen.
In my frustration I told my team, "There's no way Final Cut could not export an AVI file that couldn't be played on a PC (turning the triple negative into a positive, "Mac must be able to export an AVI file that plays on an XP."). I would completely lose faith in humanity if Mac failed me on this.

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