Seeking for some easy tool to convert camera video to x264

[junglemike]

Hello.
I personally encode my videos from the camera, with x264 cli in crf mode , and prepare scripts from templates which use some filtering . Than I mux everything with mkvtools.

I bout a camera for a friend, which is similair to mine. The friend has no knowledge in video what'soever. It shoots 640x480@30 avi video in Jmpeg (about 10000kbps) and pcm audio (11khz). I would like you to recommend me _easy_ tool to make an x264+mkv out of this. The most important for me is that this tool/method would be easy (possibly, at the expense of some quality) , without understanding of scripts, bitrates, etc.
The purpose is that he would be able to send his videos by email.
Thanks.

[Baldrick]

Maybe handbrake, load the avi, choose a profile, convert.

[junglemike]

Thanks, trying it already. Interesting, if it can hanle 11khz pcm audio.
Also is "constant quality rate" profile means that it will use --crf mode in x264?