Case Study: Christian Siebenherz achieves faster, more flexible disaster-film editing with Avid Technology

Building an Epic Career Christian Siebenherz

Christian Siebenherz, a Norwegian film editor on projects like *The Wave* and *The Quake*, needed an efficient way to manage complex, effects-heavy disaster films on tight budgets. Using Avid Media Composer, he and his team handled multiple editors, large timelines, and fast-moving story structure while working across productions in Norway and abroad.

Avid Technology’s Avid Media Composer helped Siebenherz and his team cut both films with external drives and Dropbox-based bin sharing, while also creating temp VFX, sound, and pacing adjustments directly in the edit. The result was a highly efficient workflow that supported challenging sequences like the tilting hotel skyscraper and wave disaster scenes, helping the films achieve strong audience reach, including an estimated 1.5 million viewers in Norway and sales to more than 150 countries for *The Wave*.