Need Help Converting 100+ MPG to AVI

Hey everyone, I recently upgraded from Windows to a 13" MacBook Pro and since my Windows days, I've wanted to edit a bunch of videos together in iMovie. The only problem is, the videos are in MPG and I believe I need AVI to edit them in iMovie. I'm not too worried about losing quality or anything, I just want to be able to string them together.

I've tried Handbrake, but it's a bit tedious to individually convert 136 video files. I'm hoping that you guys have some magical solution that will convert all my videos with a click of a button. I'm even willing to use the terminal!

Thanks a lot!

You don't need them in avi format to use in iMovie. Avi is not an edit friendly format. iMovie converts everything to the Apple Intermediate Codec on import so you might as well convert to that straightaway.

Use MPEGStreamclip. It has an excellent Batch function. Just drag them all in, and away it goes.
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Thanks for the reply, MightyGem.

I see, I thought it needed AVI.

I forgot to mention that I've tried using that before as well. Whenever I try to drag my files into it, it says "File open error: Unrecognized file type." However I did try it again and this time it told me that I need the MPEG-2 Playback Component but I'm running Lion and Apple says I don't need it because MPEG-2 functionality is built in.

Nevermind, I got it to work! For those interested, I downloaded the beta version of MPEG Streamclip and got the .dmg of the MPEG Component from Apple. Then you just use the utility that comes with the beta version and it works.