advice on converting AVIs to MPEG-2 format

my project consists of the following steps:

1) use theater 550 tuner capture card to rip vhs tapes to hard drive as uncompressed AVI
2) use virtualdub to encode AVIs with FFV1 lossless compression (an optional step i use to save space)
3) use cinema craft encoder sp (CCE) or procoder 3 to encode resulting files to MPG2 format so they’ll all fit on one dvd (otherwise, burning the FFV1-compressed files need to be spanned across two DVDs.. not good for my needs).

seems like a simple process, but both CCE and procoder produce two separate media files, one video and one audio. it seems like another unnecessary step to merge the two files together when i could just have one file with both audio and video to begin with.

anyone have any pointers as to how to make this MPEG-2 conversion a bit less of a headache? i would rather stay away from TEMPGEnc as i am not particularly fond of age-old programs.

ps - i am using nerovision fron nero 7 ultra to burn my video files.

no help?

can you finish it now?

Professional DVD Copy-Compress DVD-9 to DVD-5, Copy Region DVDs.
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DVD Burner-Burn various video formats to DVD Disc/ISO File/DVD Folder.

no, i still need help. can anyone give me some pointers here?

You could simply multiplex the audio and video part using simple MPEG tools in TMPGEnc.
Get TMPGEnc (it’s freeware) from http://www.tmpgenc.net (click on downloads at the *top* after you select your language). Open TMPGEnc, skip the wizard. Click on File, MPEG Tools.
For multiplexing audio with video, you can use the multiplex tab in MPEG Tools (MPEG-2 (Program) I think).

You could simply multiplex the audio and video part using simple MPEG tools in TMPGEnc.
Get TMPGEnc (it’s freeware) from http://www.tmpgenc.net (click on downloads at the *top* after you select your language). Open TMPGEnc, skip the wizard. Click on File, MPEG Tools, then multiplex tab (MPEG-2 (Program) I think).