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Sales of Sonic DVDit!™ and MyDVD™ Pass 250,000 Unit Mark

Demand for Desktop DVD Authoring Continues to Soar, New Consumer Market Emerges

Marin County, California (December 6, 2000) - Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) announced today that sales of its award-winning DVDit! and MyDVD applications have topped the 250,000 unit mark. In just a little over a year, SonicÌs desktop DVD authoring and consumer DVD recording applications have captured more than 90 percent of the overall market for DVD applications, underscoring the significant demand for SonicÌs affordable, simple-to-use solutions for publishing video on DVD.

"The success of our DVDit! and MyDVD product lines has been phenomenal," said James Manning, Product Marketing Manager at Sonic. "DVDit! is the top choice for desktop DVD authoring and is bundled with the widest range of non-linear video editing and PC products in the industry. Our sales through OEMs, a worldwide network of resellers, and our new web store have made Sonic the leader in prosumer DVD applications, complementing our leadership position in high-end professional solutions."

Sonic DVDit! and MyDVD are the DVD products of choice among leading PC and multimedia OEMs including Aplix, Avid, Dazzle, DV Studio, I-O Data, Margi, Matrox, Media 100, Melco, NEC, Sigma Designs, Sony Vaio, and others. DVDit! has received rave reviews from the top PC and video publications, including a perfect five-star score from PC Magazine in a November article on DVD authoring solutions.

Sonic DVDit! gives anyone who works with digital video the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC. With the ability to simply drag-and-drop video and audio 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, videographers and digital multimedia publishers worldwide to create high-quality DVD versions of client presentations, merchandising and promotional materials, advertising comps, interactive training materials, multimedia presentations, special events and weddings.

Sonic MyDVD, SonicÌs new $99 consumer authoring package, is available through OEMs and through the Sonic webstore at mydvd.sonic.com. With its intuitive user interface, MyDVD makes creating DVD titles almost as easy as recording a video. With support for Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium, and Windows NT, MyDVD runs on the most popular PC platforms, and is compatible with the widest range of PC-based video editing systems.

MyDVD, along with DVDit!, were chosen as the key applications for demonstrations of the latest DVD recorders from Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, and Ricoh at last monthÌs COMDEX convention in Las Vegas.

About 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 ç from DV to D1 ç 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 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, and cDVD formats.

Recently, Sonic DVDit! has been honored with awards by many of the video industryÌs leading trade publications including Millimeter MagazineÌs Tommy Award, Television BroadcastÌs Pick of Show, DV MagazineÌs Award of Excellence, and a perfect score review in PC Magazine. More information about DVDit! is available at dvdit.com.

About MyDVD
The first DVD authoring application for consumers, MyDVD makes it easy to capture "your life on DVD." With its remarkably friendly user interface and intuitive authoring, MyDVD makes it possible for home video enthusiasts to take video, music, digital photos, and scanned artwork and create their own interactive movies. Users can record their finished DVD projects to low-cost CD-R devices, and MyDVD automatically writes a software player on the disc, making it easy to publish interactive videos on universal, low-cost media and play them back on virtually any PC. More information about MyDVD is available at mydvd.sonic.com.

Special Note: 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 SonicÌs revenues using any simple calculation. Readers interested in SonicÌs financial performance should rely only on those documents the company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing. Sonic DVDit!Ù (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at videographers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Sonic MyDVDÙ is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD". Sonic DVD CreatorÐ and Sonic DVD Fusion for MacintoshÐ 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 HDÙ 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.

© 2000 Sonic Solutions. Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, cDVD, MyDVD and DVDit!, are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. DVD Creator and DVD Fusion for Macintosh are registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.