Risk Assessment & Mitigation Flashcards
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.