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Sonic MyDVD™ Brings DVD Publishing to the Home

Sonic Ships First Consumer Application for Low-Cost Video Publishing

Marin County, California (November 21, 2000) - Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the world leader in DVD authoring applications, announced today that it is shipping MyDVD, the first consumer software that allows home users to publish their DVD content on low-cost CD-R media. With a suggested retail price of only $99 U.S., MyDVD makes it easy for consumers to create interactive scrapbooks that include videos, images and music to remember and share their birthday parties, sports events, vacations, anniversaries and other personal memories.

Based on SonicÌs award-winning DVDitÙ application for professional desktop DVD publishing, MyDVDÌs simple drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to select video clips and images, build menus and preview a title in minutes. Projects created with MyDVD can be written to low-cost CD recorders, allowing home video publishers to easily share their videos on a low-cost, universal medium. MyDVD also includes a software viewer on each disc, so that a CD-R with DVD content, a cDVDÙ, can be played on any of the hundreds of millions of PCs equipped with high-speed CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives.

"MyDVD is the 'killer app' for video publishing because it brings life and excitement to home movies," said James Manning, Product Manager for MyDVD and DVDit!. "You donÌt have to watch hours of boring video footage any longer. With MyDVD you can choose the clips you want, add menus, record them to a disc, and share them with anyone who has a PC."

MyDVD is powered by the same high-performance DVD formatting engine that is the foundation of Sonic DVD CreatorÐ, DVD Fusion for MacintoshÐ and DVDit!, and which has been used to author hundreds of thousands of Hollywood movies, corporate, and consumer DVD titles. With its intuitive user interface, MyDVD makes it simple for anyone to record titles without grappling with any of the complex intricacies of the DVD-video specification. With support for Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium, and Windows NT, MyDVD can be used on almost any PC platform, and with the widest range of PC-based video editing systems, by consumer video enthusiasts everywhere.

Sonic MyDVD includes built-in translations in ten languages - Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish - and is available now for $99 on the Sonic webstore at http://store.dvdit.com.

About Sonic 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.

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 MyDVD is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." Sonic DVDit! (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 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.

© 2000 Sonic Solutions. Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, DVD Creator, DVD Fusion for Macintosh, DVDit!, MyDVD, SonicStudio HD, "The Easiest Way to Publish on DVD" and "Your Life on DVD" are trademarks, and 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.