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I had a meeting with the Assistant DA to go over my options (it's my first ticket) and have been talking to a lawyer who loved to tell stories about this and that. Then with my limited research I probably started making things up in my head and rolled with them.

Definitely contact an attorney. I'm also fighting a ticket and the guy I'm hiring (good friend of my sister's) told me that lots of DA's or PA's will play the system and scare you into some sort of plea bargain because you don't know he can't ask certain questions. He also told me that most tickets that are contested with an attorney get dropped somehow, either by deferred adjudication or otherwise. If he doesn't have you on radar (which I assume, since he claimed his camera) that is very good news for you since, while admissible in court, the officer's testimony alone is generally not sufficient when contested by an attorney. You could subpoena the video he claims is evidence and see what you may be up against just in case.