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Risk Assessment & Mitigation Flashcards

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  1. A production company receives a camera card containing H.264 footage they plan to edit natively via AMA in Avid Media Composer for an urgent broadcast delivery. Which risk should an ACI instructor flag?

    Answer: H.264 AMA playback is compute-intensive and may cause dropped frames, jeopardizing an urgent deadline

    Long-GOP H.264 decoded in real-time via AMA is CPU-heavy; for broadcast deadlines, consolidating or transcoding to a native Avid codec (DNxHD/HR) is safer.

  2. When teaching risk in output workflows, which scenario represents the highest risk of delivering a file that fails broadcast QC?

    Answer: Outputting without first verifying that the sequence frame rate and codec match the delivery specification

    A mismatch between sequence settings and delivery spec (frame rate, codec, scan type) is the most common cause of QC rejection in broadcast deliveries.

  3. An Avid instructor emphasizes the '3-2-1 backup rule' for media projects. Which configuration satisfies this rule?

    Answer: 3 copies of data, on 2 different media types, with 1 copy offsite

    The 3-2-1 rule means 3 total copies, stored on 2 different storage media types, with 1 copy kept offsite to protect against local disasters.

  4. A student asks why Avid recommends native MXF OP-Atom media over AMA-linked camera originals for long-form projects. Which risk argument is MOST compelling?

    Answer: AMA-linked media depends on source file location stability; if originals are moved or deleted, all linked media goes offline

    AMA links are path-dependent; any reorganization of source files breaks the link, while consolidated OP-Atom media is self-contained within the Avid MediaFiles structure.

  5. An ACI instructor is reviewing risk mitigation for a multi-site Avid Interplay deployment. Which mitigation best protects against a WAN outage between sites cutting editors off from central assets?

    Answer: Enabling Interplay's remote asset caching so editors have local proxy copies of assets they are actively working with

    Remote asset caching downloads proxy copies to local storage, allowing editors to continue working with cached material if WAN connectivity is lost.

  6. During an ACI training session, a student consolidates media before archiving but forgets to enable 'Skip Media Files Already on the Drive.' Which risk does this introduce?

    Answer: The consolidation duplicates files already present, wasting storage and potentially doubling archive size

    Without that option, Media Composer copies every referenced clip including those already at the destination, unnecessarily doubling used storage.

  7. A post-production supervisor asks an ACI instructor how to mitigate risk when onboarding a new freelance editor to an Avid shared project. Which approach follows least-privilege security principles?

    Answer: Grant the freelancer read/write access only to the specific workspace and project bins required for their role

    Least-privilege means granting only the access level required to perform the job, limiting the blast radius if the account is compromised or misused.