Low-cost realtime DV/MPEG-2 editing and DVD publishing for PCs

Marin County, CA -- August 13, 1999 -- Sonic Solutions announced today that Matrox Video Products Group will bundle Sonic's DVDit! LE with the new Matrox RT2000, a real-time nonlinear editing and DVD production solution for corporate video artists, event videographers, and multimedia producers. Based on Sonic's award-winning DVD Creator technology, DVDit! LE is the first affordable DVD authoring tool designed to bring the power of DVD publishing to non-linear video editors. The combination of Sonic's DVDit! LE and the Matrox RT2000 provides producers and editors with the ability to edit analog or DV video, encode the project to MPEG-2, and author a basic DVD title, all at $1,295 US. Matrox demonstrated the RT2000 and DVDit! at this week's Siggraph show in Los Angeles and next week's Wedding and Event Videographer's (WEVA) show in Las Vegas. Sonic will also be demonstrating DVDit! next week at WEVA and at the DVD Pro show in San Francisco.

"With over thirty million DVD-equipped PCs and five million DVD-set top players in the North American market alone, DVD playback is becoming ubiquitous, and the interest in encoding, editing and authoring DVD titles is exploding," said Alain Legault, Matrox Vice President of Product Development. "Sonic is the clear leader in DVD authoring and DVDit! is an important component of our new product line-up. Together with the Matrox RT2000, we believe that we have a solution which represents a breakthrough in price and performance."

The Matrox RT2000 includes realtime native-DV and MPEG-2 editing with broadcast-quality 3D digital video effects and near-realtime MPEG-2 video encoding. It ships with Adobe Premiere RT nonlinear editing, Ulead Cool 3D titling, Sonic Foundry ACID Music audio editing, as well as DVD authoring and formatting via Sonic Solutions' DVDit! Matrox RT2000 will be available for Windows 98 in October.

"Matrox is a leader in graphics and video editing solutions and we're very excited to work with them to bring DVD production to a broader group of producers and editors," said Mark Ely, Director of Product Marketing at Sonic Solutions. "Together, the Matrox RT2000 and DVDit! are a great solution for high-quality, low-cost DVD production."

In addition to the RT2000/DVDit!combination, Matrox announced earlier this year that it would also be bundling DVDit! LE with its new DigiSuite DTV realtime editing platform for broadcast and post-production. DigiSuite DTV includes a software suite for complete digital media creation - Adobe Premiere RT, Inscriber CG, Boris Effects 3D DVE and Sonic DVDit! LE - and is priced at $5,995 US. DigiSuite DTV for Windows NT, along with DVDit! LE, will begin shipping this month.

About Sonic DVDit!

Sonic Solutions DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple and straightforward user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD multiplexing technology, Sonic DVDit! gives video professionals, graphic designers, artists and video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC. Sonic DVDit! SE ("Standard Edition") has a suggested U.S. list price of $499 and will be available for purchase from the DVDit! SE web site at www.dvdit.com in September. All registered DVDit! LE users will be able to upgrade to DVDit! SE at a special upgrade price.

About Matrox

Matrox Video Products Group (www.matrox.com/video) designs and manufactures a complete line of open-architecture, PC-based, broadcast-quality digital video hardware and Windows NT development tools for OEMs, systems integrators and end users in the television broadcast, cable and post-production industries. The award-winning Matrox DigiSuite cards provide the ideal platform for real-time nonlinear editing, digital compositing, paint, titling, 3D animation recording, audio sweetening, DVD authoring, and video server applications.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)

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.