SONIC MYDVD™ IS FIRST TO BRING DVD PUBLISHING TO THE HOME

DAZZLE MULTIMEDIA NOW SHIPPING MYDVD WITH DIGITAL VIDEO CREATOR, A COMPLETE DVD PUBLISHING SOLUTION FOR CONSUMERS

Phoenix, Arizona (October 4, 2000) - Sonic Solutions, the leader in DVD authoring software, announced today at the DVD Forum Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, that it has again redefined the DVD publishing landscape with the introduction of MyDVD, the first DVD authoring application designed specifically for the home user. With a suggested retail price of only $99, MyDVD enables consumers and video enthusiasts to capture "your life on DVD" and allows them to add compelling interactivity, graphics and menus to their birthday parties, sports events, vacations, anniversaries and other personal video content.

Dazzle Multimedia, Inc., a leading provider of desktop and notebook digital video editing systems for businesses and consumers, is the first to ship MyDVD in a bundle with the firm's award-winning Digital Video Creator (DVC) system. The DVC / MyDVD for Dazzle combination is the first complete solution that allows consumers to record, edit, encode and then author their own DVD projects.

"Home movies have all too often been just hour after hour of boring video footage," said Prem Talreja, VP of Marketing for Dazzle. "For the first time, with Dazzle Digital Video Creator and Sonic MyDVD, consumers can now add the sizzle of DVD to their personal stories. We chose Sonic to help us deliver this powerful solution, because they are the market leader in DVD authoring software and, with their award-winning line of DVD applications, have shown that they uniquely understand the real range of needs, from home desktop to the professional studio."

"We're very pleased to partner with Dazzle to provide the first complete DVD publishing tool for consumers," said Mary Sauer, Senior Vice-President of Business Development at Sonic. "With Dazzle's Digital Video Creator and MyDVD, now anyone with a camcorder and a PC can capture life's memorable moments on disc. With the surging interest in personal publishing, home video enthusiasts now have what they've been waiting for to distribute low-cost, high-quality, interactive content."

MyDVD for Dazzle offers a streamlined and elegant workflow - consumers encode their edited video with the Digital Video Creator software, and the finished clips are automatically loaded into a MyDVD project without further file conversions or transfers. Users can then author and preview their DVD title before recording the finished project to hard disk or recordable DVD and CD devices.

Projects created with MyDVD for Dazzle can be written to low-cost CD recorders, allowing consumers to easily share their videos on a low-cost, universal medium. MyDVD can also embed a software player on each disc, so that a CD-R with DVD content ç a cDVDÙ ç can be played on the several hundred million PCs equipped with high-speed CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives. MyDVD will also support a wide range of DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD+RW recordable devices when they appear on the market in early 2001.

MyDVD is powered by the same high-performance formatting engine in Sonic's DVD Creator, DVD Fusion for Macintosh and DVDit! products that have been used to author hundreds of thousands of Hollywood movie, corporate, and consumer DVD titles. With an easy-to-use drag-and-drop user interface, MyDVD makes it simple for consumers to author titles without grappling with the complex intricacies of the DVD-video specification. Available in ten languages and 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 around the world.

MyDVD is currently available for shipment in OEM bundles and has a U.S. suggested retail price of $99.

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.

About Dazzle Multimedia
Dazzle Multimedia, Inc., headquartered in Fremont, California, designs, builds and markets innovative, easy-to-use, Internet-ready products for digital video editing and publishing. With the acquisition of FAST Multimedia Personal Video Division, Dazzle Europe was formed in July of 2000, and will bring Dazzle's award winning product line to the rest of the world.

A majority of Dazzle is held by SCM Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:SCMM; Neuer Markt:SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World by enabling people to conveniently access secure digital content and services. Interested parties may learn more about Dazzle Multimedia by calling (510) 360-2300 or by visiting the company's Website at www.dazzle.com.

The Dazzle Digital Video Creator system is available for $249 from Dazzle's worldwide network of resellers. In addition to MyDVD for Dazzle, the DVC system includes Version 4.2 of Dazzle's popular MovieStar video editing software.

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! (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.

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