help with exporting to AVI and converting to MPEG2

[bigted]

Hi folks, this is my first time here and first attempt at burning a SVCD (or VCD for that matter). I've read through quite a bit of infomation on this topic, but i'm just wondering if there is a program that will help me complete the project from where i'm at.
i need to produce a high quality SVCD. i've used adobe premiere to capture the footage and now need to burn it. the only problem is, the exported AVI file should be about 7.3GB but due to AVI size limitations, i'd need to join the two movies together. Is there a plugin that would say allow me to export MPEG2 files from premiere? or a good AVI cut and paste tool?
I'm also lost as to what program to use for burning the file once it's exported. there seems to be many commercial products for handling DV and sooo many small apps that I wouldn't know which from which. all i know is, I have to make this look better than VHS media.
any help would be greatly appreciated. regards

[marcusaxavier]

Try converting the avi segments with TMPGEnc, then after they are converted, you can merge them together using the merge/cut option under TMPGEnc's mpg tools option. Let me know if this helps.

[bigted]

I'm about to give it a go marcusaxavier but before I do, i'll just let you know that I'm exporting from Premiere with the DV AVI setting. I have also done nothing to improve the quality, is there anything I could have done? (noise reduction?). I also have selected the recompress option but have set no limit to the data rate. The SVCD will hopefully work in DVD players so I think that leaving it interlaced would correspond with a PAL TV.
If you know of any other ways of keeping/making the quality appear better I'd be most grateful.

I'll let you know how it goes......still exporting!

regards

[bigted]

Woops, I forgot to mention that I found an article that made me wonder if I was doing everything correctly.

http://www.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/svcd/overview/#related_links

section - 6.5 Software-based (possibly SVCD-compatible) MPEG-2 encoders

it talks about user data blocks....
hmmm, not to sure here.

ciao

[bigted]

I've also been wondering if exporting AVI files from premiere is a wise move or should I be using some other (middle-man) app (like avisynth).
I wonder this because I have 2 captured files, premiere needs them when exporting and I want to keep them on my hard-disk. When I finish exporting the second AVI i'll have no disk space left.... I'm wondering when using TMPGenc, will it let me convert the AVI's to MPEG's and delete the AVI's that are no longer needed?

-total newbie
-regards