Replied to your comment, but forgot to hit the reply button.. See below.

Agreed, I thought the Zebra was an interesting shot for that very reason.

Glad you asked because I had meant to put that up. I used two tracks from incompetech.com/ that provides royalty free tunes.
The first one was incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=Accralate and the second was incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=Monkoto

Your right I did do some manual focusing. But it was done with the joystick on the viewfinder, and the joystick is pretty smooth, the mic doesn't pick that up. There is that custom dial by the front of the camcorder, but I don't have it assigned to focus. I will try that though and post some sample footage with audio to see what it picks up.

Thanks Jared,
Most of the video was taken using a monopod. However that bird was taken just by hand, with image stabilization turned on.

Well I do use a monopod when possible. As for the settings though, just the cinemode 24p. Which I believe does 24p in a 60i container.