Help joining avi's, mpeg's and editing into burnable format

I have 'come over' from windows some months ago. I have a bunch of avi parts (.001, .002 etc) and some mpeg videos I want to burn onto a disk. For ex, I have about a 35 minute video in avi that was of a small town 'Christmas Truckers Parade'......What is the best (and inexpensive) program with which I can import, convert, join and burn to a dvd that I can play on a typical home DVD system?
TIA,
Fred

MPEG Streamclip is far more versatile than older generations and will play just about anything. If you have a slew of AVI files that are all the same size and bitrate use the batch mode and select the join files option while exporting to high bitrate H.264 MPEG-4. Use the one resulting MP4 file in Toast. Or in iMovie then use iDVD.
You can use the standard copy, paste edits with QT Pro if these files play OK in QT Pro. Learn the keyboard shortcuts and you can select all , copy and paste to the endof the last file at quite a clip.
However the MPEG-1/2 files cannot be used in QT as you lose the audio. So export those from MPEG Streamclip to the same size MP4 format.
If you can stand multiple titles on one DVD you can use the MPEG files in Toast. Converting all to one format enables you to use QT to make one long file first then use that to make a DVD.

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