Cutting/Adding Intros to MKV files Without Recompression? (please help)

[sonicdeth]

Ok, here is what I'm trying to do... Originally I had created some videos that would be uploaded to youtube and embedded onto the pages of my website. Unfortunately after running them through windows movie maker to add the intro/credit to them, it really compressed the vids when they were processed/exported to my desktop. At the moment, I'm using the great free program Handbrake in order to re-do the videos. I'm currently making MKV vids of the chapters that I need. from the VIDEO_TS DVD files. For one thing I'd like to throw them into VirtualDub and cut them down to what I need (without recompression of any kind), but VirtualDub doesn't seem to support MKV files, does anyone know a way to fix this, or a similar/simple program that can do it? Another thing is that I'd love to add a short little intro/outro to the videos with "Brought To You By..." on the screen... how can I do this without Windows Movie Maker and not process/recompress the video at all in the process? Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

[Baldrick]

AVIdemux might work to chop your mkvs. BUt mkv is not the best for any editing. It might work better to cut the dvd vob with mpg2cut, no reconversion. Make the intro in movie maker, convert it to the same as the mpg source and last join all mpgs with avidemux....or something....

Or get a good mpeg editor like mpeg video wizard dvd, but I guess you want free tools.