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Avid Technology Selects Sonic Solutions' DVDit! SE For New DV Editing System
Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq: SNIC) announced today that AvidÆ Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) will bundle Sonic's DVDit!ô SE authoring software with the Avid Xpressô DV on IBM IntelliStationÆ M Pro System, bringing for the first time direct DVD publishing for Avid non-linear video editors. The Avid Xpress DV on IBM IntelliStation and DVDit! combination enables Avid Xpress DV users to publish their films, videos, presentations, training, or any other multimedia content on the popular DVD format. DVDit! provides a simple, yet powerful interface for publishing Avid Xpress DV video projects on DVD. DVDit! Converts video and audio data directly from an Avid Xpress DV workstation into DVD-compliant video streams. DVDit! allows users to build their own menus, add graphics and buttons, emulate a DVD player, and format a DVD volume which can then be recorded to DVD-R for playback on set-top players or DVD-equipped PCs. Short-duration projects can be recorded to CD-R or CD-RW and played on DVD-equipped PCs. ""DVD has become a universal format, and there is very strong interest among our users to create DVD-based interactive content,"" said Patrick Dumas, Avid's Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing. ""Sonic's revolutionary DVDit! is a great addition to our Avid Xpress DV product line because it allows our users to publish their high-quality video and audio content onto DVD. Sonic's DVDit! is the enabling application for the DVD publishing revolution."" ""With the installed base of DVD set-top and DVD-equipped PCs expected to reach 50 million units by the end of 1999, DVD is now the format of choice for publishing high-quality digital video,"" said Christopher Kryzan, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Engineering at Sonic Solutions. ""Combining DVDit! with Avid's industry-leading line of Windows NT video editing workstations gives video professionals the power to edit their material in the familiar Avid production environment and then publish their work digitally on DVD."" About Avid Xpress DV On IntelliStation M Pro Avid Xpress DV on IntelliStation M Pro is a turnkey digital video editing solution designed to give creative professionals within corporations, education and government institutions, the power to communicate with video. The solution will consist of the newly announced Avid Xpress DV digital video content creation software, web-based video hosting services from IBM Global Services as well as IBM's award-winning IntelliStation M Pro workstation, IBM monitor and storage products. The solution will be sold exclusively through IBM resellers and distributors, Avid resellers and distributors, or direct from IBM (877/IBM-4PCS). The solution is planned for shipment within the first quarter of 2000 and will debut with an estimated reseller price of $8,750 (U.S.). Resellers set their own prices. Prices may vary. For more information, visit http://www.avid.com/ or http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/intellistation/. About DVDit! Sonic Solutions' DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD multiplexing technology, Sonic DVDit! provides video professionals, graphic designers, artists and video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PCs. DVDit! will begin shipping in December; the suggested retail price is $499 (U.S.). For more information about DVDit!, visit http://www.dvdit.com/ or http://store.dvdit.com/. About Avid Technology Avid Technology, Inc. is an international, industry-leading provider of digital audio and video tools for creating content for information and entertainment applications. The company's products are used by customers ranging from corporate communications professionals to film, television and interactive content producers to broadcast news organizations. For more information, visit Avid's Web site at http://www.avid.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 producing DVD titles; DVD Fusion, the first DVD publishing system designed for non-linear video editors; DVDit!, 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.