Sonic
DVDit!™ Wins Best Product of the Year Award
Sonic DVD Authoring Application Selected Best of Category by Editors
of Videomaker Magazine
Marin County, California (February 12, 2001) - Sonic Solutions announced
today that its Sonic DVDit! DVD publishing application has received Videomaker
Magazine’s 2000 Product of the Year Award in the Best CD/DVD Authoring
Software category. The product is featured in the special awards section
of the February issue of Videomaker magazine, the industry’s leading
publication for videographers and video enthusiasts. Best Products Award
criteria included user empowerment, ease of operation, affordability, quality,
innovation, dependability and performance. Winning products are those that
score the highest within their categories, relative to the competition.
Featuring an intuitive user interface, lightning-quick operation and a high-powered
DVD formatting engine, Sonic DVDit! makes publishing video content on DVD
a simple three-step process. First, video is captured (using an off-the-shelf
video encoder or DV video input) and edited (using an application such as
Adobe Premiere). Next, video clips, audio, backgrounds and buttons are dragged-and-dropped
into DVDit!. Finally, with a single mouse click, the video is converted
into MPEG-2, audio is converted to DVD-legal PCM audio, and the final DVD
content is recorded faster-than-real-time to DVD-R/RW or CD-R/RW media.
Videomaker’s Best Products of the Year Award coincides with the recent
introduction of Sonic DVDit! Version 2.3. Featuring unlimited movies and
menus, integrated MPEG-2 video transcoding, cDVD™ output and support
for DVD-RAM as well as the new Pioneer 103 DVD-R/RW, DVDit! 2.3 gives desktop
video professionals everything they need to create stunning interactive
DVD content.
“With features and functionality targeted to the needs of videographers,
Sonic continues to maintain its clear leadership position in DVD production
solutions,” said James Manning, Product Manager at Sonic Solutions.
“Videomaker’s recognition with the Product of the Year Award echoes
the views of our users – that Sonic DVDit! brings unprecedented affordability,
ease-of-use and creativity to DVD production.”
“Videographers look to Videomaker’s Best Products of the Year
Awards when selecting the products and technologies that will make a difference
in their video projects,” said Steve Muratore, Editor in Chief at Videomaker
Magazine. “Best Products of the Year winners are chosen by the magazine’s
editorial staff, contributing editors, and other experts, and they represent
the highest achievements in innovation, ease of use, dependability, and
performance.”
About Sonic DVDit!
Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com/)
is the smartest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple and straightforward
user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD formatting technology, DVDit!
gives multimedia and video professionals, graphic designers, artists and
video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on
their PC.
With an intuitive interface, creating 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.
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® 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, cDVD, AutoDVD, eDVD
and DVDit! are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. DVD Creator and DVD Fusion
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.
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