Does anybody know what this means?

[FilmBoy77]

I got this in an email early this morning:

We are looking for an HD crew to come in (audio, camera) to film a stage play. We will provide our own producers, director other above the line folks. What we want is a live switch and iso. Can you provide this?

I'm not really sure what a "live switch and ISO" are....does anybody know exactly what that is or what they mean?

I don't really go out looking for clients so to speak, I guess this person just stumbled upon my website.

[Capt Quirk]

Well, a live switch is for multi camera shoots, mixing down between them to a single source for recording or broadcast. An iso is usually a disk image as far as I know.

[FilmBoy77]

a disk image? now i'm thinking in terms of programming...how does that relate to video?

[Capt Quirk]

An iso is a ghost image used for burning CDs and DVDs, but this may be a case of same terms, different meanings. What they may want is stuff mixed down to one file, so that they can burn their own DVDs.

[bparis]

They want both a switched version of the show and each camera iso'd (isolated). They want a recording from the individual cameras in case they need to edit something into the switched version.

[BrianMurphy]

bparis is correct. what they need is someone with a flypack. not an inexpensive setup especially in HD. SD is a simpler situation these days with switchers going pretty cheap.
Least expensive way to do this would probably be with several DVX 100a or b cameras all matched colour wise (firewire)and clap slated at the top of each tape. Use FCP multi cam for editing.