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AIST Selects Sonic MyDVD™ for Complete Line of Digital Image and Video Production Systems

Enables AIST Users to Video Capture, Edit, Animate and Publish Movies on DVD

Marin County, California (August 2, 2001) – Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) announced today that AIST ® , a leading developer and distributor of software solutions for digital imaging and video production, is bundling Sonic MyDVD with its complete line of MovieX™ video editing products, including MovieDV, MovieDVsuite™, and all MoviePack™ products. With MyDVD, AIST provides its users with end-to-end video capture and editing as well as the ability to publish their films, videos, presentations, training, or any other multimedia content on the popular DVD format.

“We are extremely pleased to be working with Sonic, the DVD industry leader and clearly the best-featured DVD authoring solution,” said Heinrich Noichl, CEO, at AIST. “Sonic MyDVD is the perfect addition to our MovieDV product line – it makes it easy to publish videos on DVD in the most compelling manner. Sonic MyDVD is the enabling application for the DVD publishing revolution.”

Sonic MyDVD 2.3 provides a simple, yet powerful interface for publishing MovieDV video projects on DVD. MyDVD allows users to create projects that incorporate menus, graphics, buttons, video and audio, preview titles with its built-in DVD player, and record the DVD title to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM for playback on set-top players or DVD-equipped PCs. Projects can even be recorded to low cost CD-R or CD-RW and played on DVD-equipped PCs.

"We’re very proud that AIST has chosen to team up with Sonic and include MyDVD in the MovieDV family of products, delivering a complete digital video publishing solution to their users," said Rolf Hartley, Vice-President of European Operations of Sonic Solutions. “The combination of MyDVD and MovieX™ products in a single, integrated solution delivers the ease-of-use and attractive price point that makes DVD publishing accessible to the broadest market.”

The DVD-Video format is the fastest growing consumer electronics format in history. With over 15 million DVD set-top players and over 100 million DVD-equipped PCs in the market today, DVD is rapidly replacing tape as the video publishing format of choice for video professionals and video enthusiasts.

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 on the latest generation of DVD recordable drives, allowing them to easily publish interactive videos on universal, low-cost media and play them on any DVD player.

About AIST MoviePack, MovieDVsuite and MovieXone
MoviePack is the professional solution to the world of video editing and is especially suitable for the semi-professional user. MoviePack unites editing, compositing and animation in one single program. With its expandable, modular structure and easy, intuitive handling, MoviePack is suitable for semi-professionals and professionals alike. The software is fully functional on any standard PC. Thanks to its excellent price/performance ratio, this software also enables small companies with limited budgets to create their own inexpensive film and video productions in a professional and cost-effective way.

With MovieDVsuite™ AIST offers a first-class, complete solution for the construction of a non-linear video production system, which is aimed at those who have a DV camera and a standard PC. The user has a complete basic set to create his own video studio with MovieDVsuite - a FireWire interface card, a connection cable as well as the video production software MovieDV™ with a number of spectacular features including the unique Live Preview in Realtime and various compositing possibilities.

About AIST
AIST ® , located in Ampfing near Munich, was founded in 1995 and has been trading under the name AIST MediaLab AG since 2000. AIST is a dynamic innovative German software company developing and distributing advanced software solutions for digital image and video editing. AIST ® 's key to success is based on revolutionary new programming strategies, a team of highly motivated employees and the fusion of dynamics and efficiency. AIST ® products are distributed in over 30 countries worldwide and the network of trading partners is currently being expanded globally. In October 2000, AIST opened up its US headquarters in Bellingham, WA.

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 MyDVD ™ (http://www.mydvd.sonic.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." Sonic DVD Creator ® , Sonic Scenarist ® , Sonic ReelDVD ® and Sonic DVD Fusion ® 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 is 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.

© 2001 Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, MyDVD, ReelDVD and DVDit! are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. DVD Creator, DVD Fusion, Scenarist and SonicStudio 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.