Sonic Solutions Debuts DVDit! PE

First Professional-Level DVD Authoring System For Under $1000

15-Apr-00

Sonic Solutions introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters show (NAB) a new addition to the companyís award-winning DVDit! product line - Sonic DVDit! Professional Edition. Based on Sonicís groundbreaking DVDit!, DVDit! Professional Edition (DVDit! PE) increases DVDit!ís 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 worldís leading DVD authoring tools. DVDit! PE will carry a suggested retail price of $999. ""Sonic DVDit! PE is what weíve 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 Sonicís industry-leading DVD Creator workstation, DVDit! PE benefits from Sonicís years of software development and the experience of thousands of DVD developers worldwide. DVDit! PE brings many important new features: - eDVDô support for creating Web-enhanced DVD titles that combine the high-bandwidth video of DVD with the immediacy of the Web. - Streaming DVDô support to combine interactive DVD navigation with scalable audio and video for inter/intranet 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!ís 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 DolbyÆ 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. ""Itís 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 page 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 Sonicís worldwide reseller network and on-line at store.sonic.com. About Sonic SolutionsBased 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 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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