Marin County, California (July 5, 2000) - Sonic Solutions today further revolutionized the world of DVD publishing with the first shipments of its new professional application for Windows, DVDit! PE.

An addition to the groundbreaking DVDit! product family, DVDit! PE ("Professional Edition") increases DVDit!Ìs 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 have become the worldÌs leading DVD authoring tools. DVDit! PE is available now from the DVDit! web store (store.dvdit.com) and from Sonic DVDit! resellers for a suggested retail price of $999.

"DVDit! PE opens up pro-level DVD authoring to an entirely new audience of video professionals," said James Manning, DVDit! Product Manager at Sonic Solutions. "At the click of a button, videographers can import Dolby Digital files and 16:9 widescreen video, author sophisticated interactivity and then burn a DVD-R or create a DLT master for mass replication. For video producers who wish to create great-looking DVD content without breaking the bank, DVDit! PE is the ideal solution."

In addition to providing 99 menus, professional mastering support, Dolby encoding and widescreen video support, DVDit! is also the only sub-$1000 DVD authoring system to offer cDVDÙ , a revolutionary format that allows users to produce DVD titles today using low-cost CD-R media that play back on virtually any PC with a CD-ROM drive.

"We are excited about partnering with Sonic Solutions to bring cDVD to the masses," said Joe Monastiero, VP of Marketing and Sales for InterVideo Inc. "By including InterVideo's WinDVD player on every cDVD made by DVDit!, anyone with a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive can play DVD content authored with DVDit! on their PC. Now, for the first time, DVD title producers can record their DVD content to inexpensive CD-R media for playback on virtually any PC."

DVDit! PE is the perfect companion product for anyone involved in professional video production. With integrated software-based transcoding of QuickTime and AVI video and audio files, DVDit! integrates easily with video editing products by Adobe, Avid, Dazzle, DV Studio, FAST, FutureTel, In-Sync, Margi, Matrox, Media 100, NEC, Pinnacle, Sigma, Sony and more.

"As a DVDit! distributor, we have anxiously awaited the release of DVDit! PE with its expansive feature set," said Ken Avery, Vice-President of San Francisco-based Digital Edge Distribution. "Our customers who have been happily using DVDit! SE are now asking for additional high-end capabilities. With DVDit! PE, they have a more powerful tool that they can transition to."

The first shipments of DVDit! PE coincide with version 2.0 of DVDit! SE (Standard Edition), which offers exciting new features including chapter points, cDVD support and advanced navigation capabilities. All versions are available for purchase on the DVDit! web store (http://store.dvdit.com) and can be purchased either as an upgrade for existing DVDit! users, or as a standalone product. The suggested retail price for DVDit! PE is $999 and DVDit! SE is available at a $499 suggested retail price.

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

DVDit! is compatible with AVI and QuickTime video files, allowing users to incorporate virtually any video content ç from DV to D1 ç 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 an video clip. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, transcodes video to MPEG-2, multiplexes and formats content and writes it to CD-R or DVD-R for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or PCs. Among recent awards received by DVDit! are Millimeter magazine's Tommy Award, Video Systems' Vanguard Award, and Television Broadcast's NAB 2000 EditorsÌ Pick of Show.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing and interactive, streaming video on the Internet. Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at consumers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Streaming DVD is the first interactive technology based on DVD for content distribution over the Internet. Sonic DVD Creator and DVD Fusion for Macintosh are the most widely-used systems for professional DVD publishing, and are installed worldwide at major studios, post production facilities and in corporate marketing departments. SonicStudio HD is the leading digital workstation for preparing audio for release on CD and the first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic is also a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

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