Synchronizing Sony MC50e + Sony PMW-EX1 + sound from Zoom H4n

I´m an amateur. Having problem with synchronizing sound and picture from the cameras:
Sony MC50e rec.format --> HD FX (1080/50i)
Sony PMW-EX1 rec.format --> HQ (1080/25p)
and sound from:
Zoom H4n 48 kHz (but I don´t know framerate etc...??)
I´ve FCP 6.0.6
After a while from where the files are synchronized, the files (in timeline) gets desynchronized.
Do I have to run all the files thru a compressor? If someone now exactly what I should do. Sequence presets (I´m editing for dvd), compressor settings, other kinds of settings etc... Please tell me. I know that its timelasting thing to use compressor for all the files. I hope to find another solution.
- T

It says: "The synchronization itself is done using audio tracks only, so you'll need clips with both video and audio in order to use it (pluraleyes)."
That´s a problem. I have one camera without sound. And one camera with sound, but it may be different from the recording by zoom h4n because of the different placement in the recording room (church).
Are there any other solutions? Someone that knows exactly the preferences of the files from EX1, MC50e and Zoom H4n (with recording settings as described over), that knows another way to fix this? That´s also a question: How to synch to videofiles (one 1080 24p, another 1080 50i) without audio.
Thomas
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