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Sonic Solutions Sales of MyDVD™ and DVDit!™ Top One Million

Consumer Interest in DVD Authoring Expands As New DVD-Recorders Hit Market

Marin County, California (July 11, 2001) ­ Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) announced today that sales of Sonic¹s desktop DVD publishing applications DVDit! and MyDVD have topped the one million unit mark, coming less than three months after they reached the 500,000 mark. The latest million-unit milestone demonstrates the strong interest in affordable, easy-to-use solutions for creating DVDs and further establishes Sonic as the leading provider of DVD authoring applications.

"With the new, lower-cost DVD recorders hitting the market, consumer interest in personal DVD video publishing is about to jump dramatically," said James Manning, Product Marketing Manager for Consumer DVD Products at Sonic. "DVD recorders are to video as CD recorders have been to music, and Sonic is the best positioned to take advantage of this new explosion in consumer video."

Sonic will be the exclusive supplier of DVD-Video authoring software for HP¹s new DVD Writers that are expected to ship late this summer; Sonic MyDVD is also included with Pioneer¹s new line of DVD recorders; and DVDit! and MyDVD are bundled with products from other leading PC and video manufacturers including Avid, Compaq, Media 100, Matrox, NEC, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony and more.

"Sonic DVDit! is so easy to use that I was able to begin authoring my own titles right after opening the box," said Wayne White, Project Manager of the Visual Communications Center at Sprint. "With DVDit! I¹m able to produce DVD titles with exceptional quality. The software works with all of my video formats, and it lets me make better projects in less time."

Sonic DVDit! and MyDVD make it easy for home users and video enthusiasts to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PCs. With the ability to simply drag-and-drop video and audio into the application, design interactive menus and record the final content to DVD+RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW, Sonic DVDit! and MyDVD are being used by video enthusiasts worldwide to create high-quality DVD versions of their movies and video projects.

About Sonic DVDit!
Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple and straightforward user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD 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, so that virtually any video content ­ from DV to D1 ­ can be incorporated into a DVDit! project. With an intuitive interface, building DVD titles is as easy as selecting a menu background and then dragging and dropping an AVI, QuickTime or MPEG video file. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, multiplexes and formats content and records to CD-R or DVD-R for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs. DVDit! can create interactive titles in DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and cDVD formats.

Sonic DVDit! has been honored with awards by many of the video industry¹s leading trade publications including Millimeter magazine¹s Tommy Award, Television Broadcast¹s Pick of Show, DV Magazine¹s Award of Excellence, a perfect score review in PC Magazine, and Authoring Product of the Year from Videomaker Magazine.

About Sonic MyDVD
The first DVD authoring application for consumers, and the first with Direct-to-DVD™ recording, MyDVD makes it easy to capture "your life on DVD." With its remarkably friendly user interface and intuitive authoring, MyDVD makes it possible for home video enthusiasts to take video, music, digital photos, and scanned artwork and create their own interactive movies. Users can record their finished DVD projects on the latest generation of DVD recordable drives, making it easy to publish interactive videos on universal, low-cost media and play them on any DVD player.

Special Note: DVDit! and MyDVD are sold in multiple versions and through various channels, including OEM bundles. Thus, it is impossible to estimate the impact of DVDit! and MyDVD shipments on Sonic¹s revenues using any simple calculation. Readers interested in Sonic¹s financial performance should rely only on those documents the company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing. Sonic DVDit!™ (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at videographers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Sonic MyDVD™(http://www.mydvd.sonic.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." Sonic DVD Creator®, Sonic Scenarist®, Sonic ReelDVD® and Sonic DVD Fusion® 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 is the first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic is a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

© 2001 Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, cDVD, AutoDVD, eDVD, MyDVD and DVDit! are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. DVD Creator and DVD Fusion are registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.