Sonic Solutions Builds Worldwide Network of Resellers For New DVD Fusion Line
Sonic Solutions has announced that it has established a worldwide network of resellers for DVD Fusion, a family of DVD production systems for Avid, Media 100 and QuickTime-based video editing systems. The DVD Fusion dealer network includes 29 resellers in the Americas, 21 in Europe and 13 in the Pacific Rim; Sonic plans to further expand the channel for DVD Fusion over the next three months. The new DVD resellers were selected for their expertise in providing video and presentation production solutions for film, video and corporate and industrial communications, and most are also resellers of Avid or Media 100 video editing systems. ""We are very excited to be working with this prestigious group of resellers,"" said Christopher Kryzan, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Engineering at Sonic Solutions. ""Their extensive experience in the non-linear video editing market will allow them to deliver DVD production to thousands of non-linear video editors who want an easy and effective way to convert their projects to DVD."" ""Interest in creating DVDs is exploding,"" said John Dolan, CEO of AVDiGiTAL, a Media 100 reseller in Minneapolis. ""We believe that Sonic DVD Fusion will be the cornerstone of our DVD strategy and will become an important part of our product lineup."" ""Our clients have been clamoring for a way to move directly from their video editing system to DVD,"" said Marcus Hume-Humphreys, Director of Root 6, the top Avid reseller in London. ""With DVD Fusion, Sonic offers the quality, integration and productivity our clients are looking for and at a price they can afford."" ""It is clear that DVD is the video publishing format that video editors now demand,"" said Yuji Mori, Section Manager of Sanshin Electronics Sales Group, the leading reseller of professional video and audio systems in Japan. Sonic DVD Fusion provides the missing link from nonlinear editing systems to DVD, and with its track-record in the high-end DVD production market, Sonic has the technology and know-how to successfully move our customers into the DVD publishing market."" About DVD Fusion Designed to integrate with Avid, Media 100 and QuickTime-based video editing tools, DVD Fusion is the first DVD publishing companion for non-linear video editors. Using technology from Sonic's industry-leading DVD Creator system, Sonic DVD Fusion allows digital transcoding of Avid, Media 100 and QuickTime projects into MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. DVD Fusion provides extensive interactive DVD authoring and allows for direct recording to DVD-R. Pricing And Availability Sonic DVD Fusion is available in two configurations for the Macintosh. A software-based version includes MPEG-2 video transcoding and Dolby Digital audio encoding of QuickTime video or audio files and sells at a suggested U.S. list price of $7,999. A hardware-accelerated version speeds MPEG transcoding by as much as 500 percent and also enables real-time VBR and CBR encoding of video content from component and composite video inputs; it has a suggested U.S. list price of $11,999. About Sonic Solutions Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions designs and manufactures DVD publishing systems used by video, audio and multimedia professionals around the world to prepare music, video, film, graphics and entertainment software. Sonic DVD Creator is the leading system for producing content for the DVD format, and has been used to create thousands of DVD titles worldwide, for applications ranging from feature film releases to corporate and industrial titles. Sonic also offers SonicStudio HD, the leading digital audio workstation used by audio professionals to prepare recorded sound for release on DVD and CD, as well as for film and video soundtracks and broadcast. 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: www.sonic.com.