Micro-PACE To Distribute Sonic DVDit!

Leading Distributor Of Digital Content Creation Products To Bring DVDit! To US Market

1-Apr-00

Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) announced that Illinois-based Micro-PACE, a leading distributor of digital media products including digital video capture, editing, web production and digital music creation, will distribute the Sonic DVDit! line of products in the United States. Through its extensive network of over 3000 resellers nationwide and via its DV Direct e-tail site at www.dvdirect.com, Micro-PACE will deliver DVDit! to dealers and consumers eager to use or resell DVD publishing systems. Micro-Pace will carry DVDit! SE as a standalone application as well as DVDit! LE to SE upgrades for current users of DVDit!LE. In addition to providing high-level technical knowledge and personal service to its resellers, Micro-PACE offers configuration, installation, service and support for a wide variety of products. In addition to the Sonic DVDit! line of products, Micro-PACE distributes product for one hundred of the most progressive companies in the digital content creation market, including: 3Dlabs, Artel, Avid, Canopus, Digital Origin, AST, Integrated Computing Engines (ICE), Matrox, Medea, Media 100, NewTek, Pinnacle Systems and Sonic Foundry. ""Sonic DVDit! for the first time provides users with an affordable, high-quality, and easy to use solution for DVD publishing and is the perfect companion to video editing and capture systems,"" said Micro-PACE Founder and President Robert Wolter. ""The addition of DVDit! to our line card underscores our commitment to provide our resellers with the best selection of digital content creation products. With Sonic, the recognized industry leader in DVD, we are able to offer our customers the very best DVD publishing solution the market has to offer."" ""Micro-PACE has earned a distinguished reputation as one of the leading wholesalers of desktop video products in the United States and we are pleased that they have decided to add DVDit! to their strong line-up of video products,"" said Mary Sauer, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sonic Solutions. ""We look forward to building a strong business relationship with Micro-PACE as DVD becomes the industry standard for publishing and distributing digital video."" 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 multiplexing 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 video files, allowing users to incorporate virtually any video content - from DV to D1 - into their DVDit! project. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, building DVD titles is as easy as selecting a menu background and then dragging and dropping an AVI file on top. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, encodes video to MPEG-2, multiplexes and formats content and writes it to CD-R or DVD-R for playback on consumer set-top DVD-Video players or DVD-equipped PCs. DVDit! can create interactive titles in DVD-Video, DVD-ROM and Streaming DVD formats. About Micro-PACE Micro-PACE, Inc., founded in 1982, is the premiere distributor of digital content creation products for personal computers. Micro-PACE offers a wide range of products for use in desktop digital video, 3D design and animation, advanced computer graphics, Web designing and authoring, music/MIDI and audio products as well as custom workstations. With nearly two decades of experience, Micro-PACE has earned a distinguished reputation with a high level of customer loyalty that is the company trademark. For more information please visit the e-commerce site at http://www.dvdirect.com or the reseller site at http://www.micropace.com. About Sonic Solutions 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 professional DVD production; DVD Fusion, the first DVD publishing system designed for non-linear video editors; DVDit! (http://store.dvdit.com/, 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 http://www.sonic.com/.

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