Las Vegas, Nevada (April 11, 2000) – Sonic Solutions today introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters show (NAB) a new addition to the company’s award-winning DVDit! product line – Sonic DVDit! Professional Edition. Based on Sonic’s groundbreaking DVDit!, DVDit! Professional Edition (DVDit! PE) increases DVDit!’s reach with professional functionality previously found only on authoring systems costing five to ten times as much. DVDit! PE joins DVDit! LE ("Limited Edition") and DVDit! SE ("Standard Edition"), which were introduced last year at NAB and which have become the world’s leading DVD authoring tools. DVDit! PE will carry a suggested retail price of $999.

"Sonic DVDit! PE is what we’ve been waiting for," said Matrox DigiSuite DTV user Thomas Giebank, founder of NoNothing Arts, a video and digital media production company based in Austin, Texas, "We have been an enthusiastic user of DVDit! SE and are eagerly looking forward to the expanded capababilities available in the PE version which will bring us professional level authoring at a very attractive price."

DVD Authoring Enhancements
Sonic DVDit! PE adds a rich set of features to the elegant straightforward DVDit! user interface, making professional DVD production approachable in a way never before possible. Its affordability makes it ideal for multimedia developers, videographers and in-house marketing communications departments.

Based on the same multiplexing and formatting technology as Sonic’s industry-leading DVD Creator workstation, DVDit! PE benefits from Sonic’s years of software development and the experience of thousands of DVD developers worldwide. DVDit! PE brings many important new features:

• eDVD™ support for creating Web-enhanced DVD titles that combine the high-bandwidth video of DVD with the immediacy of the web.
• Streaming DVD™ support to combine interactive DVD navigation with scalable audio and video for inter/intra-net broadcast.
• Multiple audio streams add different, simultaneous soundtracks and multiple languages that can be placed on the same DVD disc.
• Video timeline incorporates last-minute content changes quickly and efficiently using DVDit!’s integrated video trimming and simple editing capabilities.
• Chapter point editor defines instant access to any scene.
• Subtitle generator allows users to add captions and subtitles from within DVDit! using its integrated character generator.
• Integrated Dolby Digital® audio allows users to encode audio in WAV, QuickTime and AVI files to Dolby-certified Dolby Digital audio format.

"DVDit! Professional Edition combines the ease-of-use of DVDit! with the features most often used by professional DVD authors," said James Manning, Product Marketing Manager for DVDit! at Sonic Solutions. "It’s the perfect companion product for anyone involved in professional video production, from videography to studio-quality releases."

About Sonic DVDit!
Sonic DVDit! PE is the smartest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple and straightforward user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD multiplexing technology, DVDit! gives video professionals the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC.

DVDit! PE is compatible with AVI and QuickTime video files, allowing users to incorporate virtually any video content – from DV to D1 – into DVDit! projects. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, building DVD titles is as easy as selecting a menu background and then dragging and dropping a QuickTime file. Link web pages files and even email to buttons in a menu – then DVDit! automatically builds interactivity, transcodes video to MPEG-2 and audio to Dolby Digital, multiplexes and formats content and allows users to write it to a wide variety of formats including DVD, cDVD, eDVD and Streaming DVD.

DVDit! Professional Edition is targeted to ship in June 2000. Upgrades will be available for registered DVDit! SE users directly from Sonic’s worldwide reseller network and on-line at store.dvdit.com.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions designs and manufactures DVD publishing and audio editing systems used by video, audio and multimedia professionals around the world. Sonic's product lines include DVD Creator, the leading system for producing DVD titles; DVD Fusion for Macintosh, the first DVD publishing system designed for non-linear video editors; DVDit!, the easiest way to publish on DVD and the first DVD publishing application for consumers; and SonicStudio HD, the leading digital audio workstation to prepare recorded sound for release on DVD and CD. Sonic is a leader in advancing DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technology and is a full voting-member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format. Sonic Solutions can be contacted on the web at www.sonic.com.

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