Las Vegas, Nevada (April 11, 2000) – Sonic Solutions today announced at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) that FutureTel, a leading provider of MPEG encoding systems, has chosen Sonic DVDit! LE for their new MPEG content creation package, MPEGWorkShop.

"Sonic DVDit! is the perfect application for publishing MPEG video on DVD," said Brian Bohn, Worldwide Sales Manager for FutureTel. "In looking for a DVD authoring application to round out MPEGWorkShop’s cutting edge encoding and editing capabilities, we wanted an application that was easy enough to use for MPEG enthusiasts, but powerful enough for our professional customers as well. Sonic DVDit! is the only system that fits the bill."

FutureTel’s MPEGWorkShop combines leading edge MPEG-2 video encoding, MPEG video editing and DVD publishing in a single, cost-effective software bundle for Windows NT.

"FutureTel has been an innovator in MPEG video compression and editing for the corporate and broadcast markets," said Mark Ely, Director of Product Marketing for Sonic Solutions. "By adding Sonic DVDit! to MPEGWorkShop, FutureTel brings world-class DVD publishing to their exceptional MPEG production system."

About FutureTel MPEGWorkShop
MPEGWorkShop 3.0 combines FutureTel’s MPEGWorks 3.0 software, VideoMedia’s VLAN Express RS-232/422 device controller, FutureTel’s PrimeEdit MPEG editing software and Sonic DVDit! for a list price of $995. When used with FutureTel’s NS series of high-quality MPEG-2 compression boards, MPEGWorkShop gives the user the ability to not only create streamable content, but also batch encode, edit and author video for DVD.

With MPEGWorkShop 3.0, FutureTel brings together a winning combination of products from industry leaders to create a complete suite of tools for the creation of streaming or fixed media video.

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, cDVD™ and Streaming DVD™ formats.

About FutureTel
Founded in 1993 and located in Sunnyvale, California, FutureTel Inc. (www.futuretel.com) develops and markets leading-edge solutions for digital networking, publishing and broadcast markets. The company's core technologies are video compression systems and software. Based on the international MPEG standard, FutureTel's products have earned an industry-wide reputation for quality and innovation.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based 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 for Macintosh 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.