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Risk Assessment & Mitigation Flashcards

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  1. A post-production facility loses a critical Avid project because only one editor had the project file on their local drive. Which mitigation strategy would best prevent this single point of failure?

    Answer: Use Avid's Project Sharing feature so multiple users access a shared project

    Avid Project Sharing stores project data centrally on shared storage so no single user's machine is a single point of failure.

  2. When assessing risk in a live broadcast workflow using Avid iNews and MediaCentral, which failure mode poses the highest immediate impact?

    Answer: The iNews MOS gateway losing connectivity to the production switcher

    The iNews MOS gateway drives rundown-to-switcher automation; its failure can halt live broadcast playout entirely.

  3. An Avid Media Composer project has media stored on local drives without any RAID configuration. Which risk category does this represent?

    Answer: Hardware single-point-of-failure risk

    Non-RAID local drives mean a single disk failure destroys all media with no redundancy, a classic hardware single-point-of-failure risk.

  4. A studio is evaluating whether to upgrade Avid NEXIS software mid-project. Which risk factor should be weighted most heavily before proceeding?

    Answer: Whether all connected Media Composer and Pro Tools versions are certified for the new NEXIS version

    Avid maintains a strict compatibility matrix; upgrading NEXIS without confirming client software compatibility can break all workstation connections.

  5. Which Avid Media Composer feature helps mitigate the risk of an editor accidentally overwriting a sequence that a colorist is actively grading?

    Answer: Sequence Locking in a shared project

    Sequence Locking prevents other users in a shared project from opening or modifying a sequence that another user has locked.

  6. A documentary editor discovers that hours of interview footage was ingested as MXF OP-Atom at 23.98 fps but the delivery spec requires 29.97 fps. At what stage should this risk have been identified?

    Answer: During the pre-production technical spec review before ingest begins

    Frame-rate mismatches are a fundamental technical spec issue that must be caught in pre-production before any media is ingested.

  7. An ACI instructor is teaching students about media management risk. Which practice introduces the MOST risk when working with AMA-linked media in Avid Media Composer?

    Answer: Moving or renaming source files on disk without relinking in Avid first

    AMA links are path-based; moving or renaming source files on disk breaks the link and can render clips offline with no automatic recovery.