[X5] Prepending picture without re-encoding?

[Shohreh]

Hello

I have a video file that looks like this:

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Input #0, mpeg, from 'input.mpg':
  Duration: 01:00:07.83, start: 0.008000, bitrate: 9412 kb/s
    Stream #0:0[0x1bf]: Data: dvd_nav_packet
    Stream #0:1[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv), 720x576 [SAR 64:4
5 DAR 16:9], max. 9100 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
    Stream #0:2[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s
Unsupported codec with id 1145979222 for input stream 0

I'd simply like to prepend a PNG picture for a few seconds: Can Corel VideoStudio X5 simply create a new file without re-encoding the video + audio streams of the original file?

If not, is there a free tool for Windows that can do this?

Thank you.

[canuck]

You cannot simply take a image file and "merge" it with a video file without some rendering. The picture of course has to be rendered to video. If your final video is the same format as the existing video then you should be able to use "smart rendering" to speed up the process. There will be some rendering of the video at the transition from the photo to the video but the whole video should not be rerendered.

[Shohreh]

Thanks for the info.