Sonic DVDit! Wins Five Star Rating From PC Magazine

DVDit! Tops All Competition With Perfect Score

Marin County, California (October 23, 2000) - Sonic Solutions announced today that Sonic DVDit!, the easiest way to publish on DVD, has received a perfect score of five stars in a review just conducted by PC Magazine, the industry's leading PC publication. The November 7th issue of the magazine, which hit the streets this week, commended Sonic DVDit! for its intuitiveness, flexibility, compatibility, and ease of use.

DVDit! outperformed all other products reviewed in this special DVD review section, reinforcing the product's position as the clear leader in DVD authoring systems for video publishers. With over 150,000 copies of DVDit! shipped, this excellent review seconds what customers everywhere are demonstrating with their purchases, that DVDit! is the best choice for desktop multimedia publishing. With over an 80 percent market share, DVDit! has outsold all other DVD authoring systems combined and is the bundle of choice for leading OEMs including Avid, Dazzle, Matrox, Media 100, Melco, NEC, I/O Data, Sigma Designs, Sony, and others.

Sonic Solutions' DVDit! was the first DVD-authoring program for small businesses and consumers," writes Jan Ozer, reviewer for PC Magazine. "Polished and complete, DVDit! is suitable for simple to sophisticated projects and presents a very high bar for other products in this class." The complete review can be found on the ZDNet-PC Magazine web page.

In addition to the exceptional score in the PC Magazine review, DVDit! has also been honored with DV magazine's Award of Excellence, Millimeter magazine's Tommy Award for Innovation, Television Broadcast's Pick of Show for NAB 2000, Video System magazine's Vanguard Award, and more.

"A perfect score in PC magazine is an honor, and confirms that DVDit! is a top-notch product," said James Manning, DVDit! Product Manager at Sonic Solutions. "We know that PC magazine's extensive readership of video enthusiasts is a savvy group eager for DVD solutions. We are extremely pleased to have been introduced to them in such a positive light."

"Sonic DVDit! is a fantastic application and it allows us to turn video, 3D animation, and even scanned documents into totally interactive DVDs very easily and in record time," said Stuart Gold, Owner/Director of Shadow and Light Productions, a Berkeley, California-based computer animation and DVD company specializing in the creation of forensic animation and multimedia. "We can quickly create DVD titles for attorneys that are used to present and support key expert witness testimony in the courtroom environment. This really does provide a key new technology in the forensic venue, and a powerful new way to easily display information. DVDit! is unparalleled in its ease of use and speed."

Many of Sonic's OEM partners have also responded enthusiastically to the news. "This is great news for us, and it's only natural that Sonic should receive the top rating from one of the industry's most important PC publications," said Spiro Plagakis, Vice-president of Sales and Marketing at Matrox. "Matrox has bundled Sonic DVDit! with our video products for over a year, and I know firsthand the value this product brings to our customers."

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 multiplexing 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, allowing users to incorporate virtually any video content - from DV to D1 - into DVDit! projects. With a simple drag-and-drop 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, and cDVD(tm) formats.

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.