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EIZO Nanao Corporation to Bundle Sonic DVDit!™

EIZO MediaDirector DV Production System to Include Award-winning DVD Authoring Solution

Marin County, California (June 27, 2001) -- Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC], the world leader in DVD authoring applications, announced today that EIZO Nanao Corporation, a leading Japanese manufacturer of award-winning CRT, LCD, plasma displays, DV production systems and other visual electronic products, will bundle Sonic DVDit! with two new models of its EIZO MediaDirector real-time DV production systems – the GP8000 with Dual CPU and DVD-R, as well as the GP5000 with Single CPU and CD-R/RW support.

With Sonic’s DVDit!, MediaDirector will provide a complete DV-to-DVD solution that allows users to edit movies in real time, select video clips and graphics, add interactive menus, preview a DVD project and then record it directly to a DVD disc in the popular DVD-Video format. The resulting DVD discs can be played on set-top DVD players as well as DVD-equipped PCs, making it possible for users to publish and share their videos on a universal medium that offers unparalleled video quality at a low cost.

“We are very pleased that EIZO Nanao has added Sonic DVDit! to their MediaDirector real-time DV production systems,” said Koki Terui, Senior Vice President of Pacific Rim Operations at Sonic Solutions. “The combination of MediaDirector with Sonic’s award-winning DVD authoring software provides a very compelling solution for creating interactive videos and multimedia presentations for a wide span of corporate and industrial uses.”

“DVD has become a universal format, and there is very strong interest among our users to create DVD-based interactive content,” said Masayuki Hashimoto, DV Production System Development Manager, of EIZO Nanao Corporation. “Sonic’s revolutionary DVDit! is a great addition to our MediaDirector line because it allows our users to publish their high-quality video and audio content onto DVD. Sonic DVDit! is the enabling application for the DVD publishing revolution.”

Both models of the EIZO MediaDirector are now shipping in Japan and are available at a retail price of 800,000 yen for the GP8000 and 500,000 yen for the GP5000.

About EIZO MediaDirector
EIZO MediaDirector provides users with real-time data processing and compound editing of video productions. MediaDirector makes it possible to conform titles and transitions – time-consuming processes for movie making – at the same time it provides real-time filtering of compound video on the display.

A dual-CPU Intel Pentium III computer with a Canopus DVStorm-RT capture card, the StormEdit editing application, and Adobe Premier 6.0 are used to provide a real-time digital video production environment.

MediaDirector’s newly-developed jog controller allows users to import images and to perform editing tasks much as they would use an analog editing scenario. In addition, high-speed data file output to DVD and other media formats are supported. The Canopus StormEncoder provides fast MPEG-2 encoding (two hours to output a two-hour movie). Adobe Photoshop LE and Sonic Solutions DVDit! SE authoring software are bundled to provide powerful digital video editing and authoring features.

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 EIZO Nanao Technologies
EIZO Nanao Corporation is a leading Japanese manufacturer of award-winning CRT, LCD, plasma displays and other visual electronic products. Established in 1968 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, EIZO Nanao Corporation continues to supply global markets with high-quality, high-performance monitors and peripherals for working professionals. Today, the EIZO brand name is represented in over 30 countries throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania. For over thirty years, the EIZO brand name has been symbolic of the quality, innovation and leading technology incorporated in every EIZO display model. EIZO utilizes engineering talent and incorporates only the highest quality components to research and develop state-of-the-art products. This development is accomplished in Japan, where EIZO will continue to lead the display industry into innovative new directions into the future.

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, 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.