Ok, I got a call from a friend who is using Vegas for making
videos of his kindergarten class. His problem is that
when he renders to an uncompressed .avi file of about 5.3 GB, he can't
get it to playback in any of his other software without excessive stuttering.

He's using Windows 2000 so I don't think the 4 GB limit has anything to
do with it unless other software programs have a limit too.
I know that Sound Forge 6 advertises overcoming the 4 GB limit.
The FAT 32 file system has the limit but I haven't heard about
it being a software limit. Any ideas on that?

I'm sorry the information is so sketchy. He's strictly an amateur
and doesn't even know which video card or sound card he has or
which options he has checked in Vegas.
All I can say about his system is that it's
Win 2000
Pentium 3 866 MHz
768 RAM

He's not using too many effects and says that playback in Vegas while
editing is fine.

I'm going over there later to check it out, but I'm more of an audio guy
and was hoping I might be able to get at least a few basic ideas from those
of you who know more about video.

I'll post more information later.

Thanks in advance.

Dave