I managed to get it to work, i converted the large AVI files to MOV files whichw ere around 775 mb each, maintaining the exact same quality of sound and video, then AE had no problem rendering the full 10 minutes.
So you mean like render it as an AVI or MOV, becuase i tried and it still crashes.
I also tried the same thing with premiere and it was around a 5-10 minute encoding time and premiere crashed, which leads me to believe it is not a program error.