Sonic Solutionsí Sales Of DVDit! Reach 25,000 Unit Mark

Sales Of Leading DVD Publishing Solution Continue To Soar

15-Apr-00

Sonic Solutions announced that sales of DVDit!, the easiest way to publish on DVD, have topped the 25,000 unit mark. Coming less than three months after the sale of the 10,000th copy of DVDit!, the increase in sales demonstrates the keen interest the market has shown for an affordable, simple-to-use authoring solution and the unprecedented support for the DVD format. ""We are extremely pleased with the astounding success of DVDit!,"" said James Manning, DVDit! Product Marketing Manager at Sonic Solutions. ""With the exploding market for DVD set-top players and DVD-equipped personal computers, weíre now seeing interest far beyond the core groups of video production professionals who originally fueled the mediumís growth. DVD authoring is now moving into the office and the home and wherever there is a camcorder."" Sonic DVDit! gives both video professionals and enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content from virtually any video and audio file on their PC. With the ability to simply drag-and-drop video and audio content into the DVDit! application, design interactive menus and record the final content to DVD-RAM, DVD-R or CD-R/RW, Sonic DVDit! is being used by video producers worldwide to publish high-quality DVD versions of client presentations, merchandising and promotional materials, advertising comps, interactive training materials, multimedia presentations and even special events and weddings.""Less than ten minutes after I had opened the DVDit! box, I was already authoring my own DVD,"" said Dan Albert, President of AVCOM Video, a Florida-based video production company. ""Sonic DVDit! is phenomenally easy to use, works with all of my video formats, and lets me make better projects in less time. Iím especially impressed with the new cDVDô format that DVDit! supports. With cDVD, I can produce DVD projects with my CD-R recorder, and I donít have to wait until the prices of DVD-R recorders become more affordable. Iím able to produce titles with exceptional quality that we can use on our laptop computers in client presentations."" Sonic DVDit! is available as both a stand-alone product for $499 or bundled with third-party hardware and software from Avid, DV Studios, FutureTel, InnovaCom, Margi Systems, Matrox, Media 100, NEC , Sigma Designs and Sony. Please note that DVDit! is sold in multiple versions and through various channels, including OEM bundles. Thus, it is impossible to estimate the impact of DVDit! shipments on Sonicís revenues using any simple calculation. Readers interested in Sonicís financial performance should rely only on those documents the company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 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-2 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, cDVDô and Streaming DVDô formats. 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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