I'm considering expanding into video and have more or less settled on picking up a used Sony CX 550v. Seems to get decent praise around here and elsewhere on the net and used ones appear readily available on ebay. Aiming for high end consumer/pro-sumer level performance to start with.
Planning to use it in some bar settings but also, and probably more often, in better lit settings and for recital type recording, mixing in audio later but I might setup my CA-14's or other small cards to feed directly in to enhance the audio just in case. I like redundancy.
Would anybody steer me another way? I see similarly positive comments about the Panasonic TLM700 and successors but maybe just gut feeling, Sony is the way I'm leaning.
Questions about Vegas Pro. Does it sync audio sources, stretching, etc as necessary? or is that still somewhat manual like I do when matrixing from different recorders or soundboard/mic syncing in Audacity?
How difficult is it to pull in clips from other cameras, iphones, point and shoot, etc and get sync'd? Does the software help in that regard?
I'm trying to get an idea of the workflow. For the most part I do best once I get stuff in hand and play with it so figuring it's time to dive in.
thanks for any insight.