Capture directly to M2V and AIFF?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that can capture directly to M2V and AIFF (or any other compatible format), so that I can drag and drop the files directly into DVD Studio Pro. Thanks for the help.

Hal
FWIW (unless something has changed) the Capty Fastcoder does not do realtime capture/conversion. It will take a DV file though and convert it in real time. Actually a good little gizmo though it looks like it may be donefor (clearance many places and no longer on LaCie site, could not find a new homepage.)
It did a serviceable job for some things, though it could not do anamorphic (at least the one I had/have, it iss around here somewhere, nice, small and light to throw into a laptop bag ) without actually adding top/bottom bars if I recall correctly.
But when you needed a quick encode it is great. Man if anyone comes out with something like this again and tweaks it just a little bit I would grab one in a second.

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