Help Needed: AVI Format?

hi guys.
our local TV stations require HD/HDV music video files in AVI format (as they put it, without specifying any codecs), while i normally export videos i make as QuickTime movie files with Apple Intermediate Codec or DVCProHD codec. they use PCs and can't open my Mac-born .MOV files with the mentioned codecs. in the long list of my QuickTime 7 Pro there is no option for AVI. Any solution to this? What's AVI? is that a high-quality codec? how can i export my video footage from Final Cut Pro as AVI? is that an obtainable / downloadable codec?
cheers.

Send the video from FCP to Compressor. (This is the only way I know how to do this. I'm sure there is a proper way.) Pick Prores (any codec) as a codec. Then click on the second tab from the left in the Inspector window. Under the File Format drop down menu pick Quicktime Export Components. Then from the Encoder drop down menu pick AVI. More than likely the station can work with a BMP file. Call them and make sure.
The codecs you gave them are from Final Cut Pro (Mac only program) and since they are on PC's this doesn't help them.
.AVI's and .Mov's files aren't codecs, but containers for the video's to sit in. For the station to tell you to give them an AVI file with no specs on a codec is another shoot in the dark.
Quicktime pro does have a AVI option: Quicktime-->File-->Export--> Export drop down menu, AVI. More than likely the station can work with a BMP file. Call them and make sure.
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