Adding title to a compressed movie

[ionutvasilescu]

Hi! I have this problem: I have some already compressed videos (let's say "events", captured from my Digital Camera, and compressed to AVI using DivX, XVid, etc.). I would like to add some animated titles to my videos, but I don't know how to do that, as long as my vidoes are compressed. I mean I could do that using Windows Movie Maker, but in the end, I get an .wmv file, with a lower bitrate, and don't want that. I want to keep the avi format.
Can titles only be added before the compression is made? I mean - create the animated title and then create a compressed avi, containg both my video and the title??
If you guys now anything....please let me know.
Thanks...

[celtic_druid]

If you want to avoid re-compressing, just create the titles with the same specs (framerate, res, audio format, etc) and join then in front.

[ionutvasilescu]

I have done that (with heroglyph) but I can't join them because the streaming is different. Why is that?

[mats.hogberg]

None can answer that but you. Since you've created both AVIs, you're responsible for creating them in the same way. It's then a simple issue of joining them with VirtualDub (Load + Append)

/Mats