cmd line utils 4 batch processing?

new to this list i am, and new to making films as well, greetings.

i'd like to batch process (preferably at the command line) a bunch of
images and a sound file (all computer generated) and output a movie
to eventually be burned to dvd (dvd quality) and also possibly
converted to mpegs, and maybe even transferred to film. is there a
standard intermediate representation used for this, maybe the video
equivalent of a .bmp file, from which it is easy to jump to another
format and also edit in an editor?

which tools should i use, and which video file format should i be
converting to, in your vastly more informed opinions?

thanks for any pointers,
_c

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