Video Capture format

When I capture video off my Sony DCR-VX2000, I always get an AVI file. Is it possible tho get an MPEG-2? I couldn't find any place to change the file format on capture.
Thanks,
Dean

The reason I ask this seemingly silly question is because I just purchased Elemental Accelerator (EA) 2.2 to take advantage of my Nvidea 4800 video card for video exports. However, EA support told me that to take full advantage of the software, the file must first be in MPEG-2 or H.264. ...which seems odd since that is the format that it exports out as.
I agree that the instructions seem odd, indeed. The purpose of EA is to Transcode to either of those two MPEG formats. Must have been a missing, critical word somewhere.
It would be like saying that I have this neat black box, that turns water into wine. First step - do not use water, but pour in wine...
The last thing that one wants is to first compress to MPEG-2, and then Transcode/Export to MPEG-2.
Good luck,
Hunt

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