@3dStudent post your videos on youtube then just link it here. Youtube will automatically compress your video so you want have to post an uncompressed avi.
I'll make a small tutorial for you on creating a video from frames you render from Maya. I'll have it on the site tomorrow. It's really not a good idea to render out to an avi.
David 
From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"