Marin County, California (April 25, 2002) - Sonic Solutions today released MyDVD Video Suite, the most comprehensive solution available for consumer DVD production and video editing. MyDVD Video Suite makes it possible for home users to record, share and re-edit their personal videos on DVD or CD. Now shipping to Sonic OEM partners, MyDVD Video Suite will be available on Sonic's web store in early May.

MyDVD Video Suite includes Sonic MyDVD, the world's leading application for creating DVDs, and ArcSoft ShowBiz, a comprehensive video application for editing DV and MPEG video. MyDVD Video Suite incorporates many DVD publishing features pioneered by Sonic including Direct-to-DVD™ for recording directly from a camcorder to DVD or CD, as well as Sonic's unique Edit-on-DVD™, which allows users to re-edit their OpenDVD™-compliant DVDs in the fastest possible manner without having to re-load all of the original material.

MyDVD Video Suite enables users to record videos to DVD, watch them on their TVs, and then, if they wish, put them back into their PCs to edit and update the content. ArcSoft ShowBiz adds expanded video editing functionality, enabling users to perform advanced edits, including transitions, titles and effects. Files can be passed seamlessly between MyDVD and ShowBiz, streamlining the editing process.

"MyDVD Video Suite provides a complete solution for powerful, yet easy-to-use, DVD creation and video editing capabilities that Compaq Presario customers have been asking for," said Brett Faulk, Director of Consumer Desktop Marketing for Compaq. "With the explosion of interest in digital video editing and DVD recording, MyDVD Video Suite simplifies and extends Compaq's award-winning MyMovieSTUDIO digital movie-making experience for all customers."

"Sonic is the ideal partner when it comes to DVD, and MyDVD teamed with ArcSoft ShowBiz delivers more functionality and flexibility than any other solution on the market today," said Chris Bethell, Director of Marketing at ArcSoft. "MyDVD Video Suite makes it easy for users to rapidly create great looking DVDs and provides consumers with a host of powerful tools to polish their home videos with additional edits, transitions and effects." "We are very excited to offer this complete solution for consumers and desktop video enthusiasts who want to create their own DVDs," said Dave Habiger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Desktop Product Group at Sonic. "MyDVD Video Suite provides the ideal solution for users who want fast, easy and great-looking results on DVD, as well as for those who want to devote more time editing their custom videos."

About Sonic MyDVD
Sonic MyDVD is the world's leading solution for creating DVDs at home. MyDVD allows consumers to record, watch, re-edit and share their videos on DVD and CD with speed, quality and ease. With its Direct-to-DVD capability, users can record analog or digital video (DV) directly from their camcorders or VCRs to DVD. The result is a professional-looking DVD with interactive graphical menus that can play in any of the millions of set-top and PC-based DVD players installed worldwide. MyDVD also allows users to incorporate video from a variety of other sources including clips downloaded from the Internet, content from other DVDs, or exported clips from virtually any video editing application.

With Sonic's unique Edit-on-DVD implementation of the OpenDVD specification, Sonic MyDVD is the only consumer application that supports re-editing DVDs directly from the disc, making it possible for users to revise and append a DVD project without re-loading all of the original elements. MyDVD also creates discs that are OpenDVD compliant so that they can be "opened" and re-edited, expanding the possibilities for DVD by making it easy to create video diaries, up-to-the-minute customized sales presentations, family video albums and more. Sonic MyDVD is the leading choice of Original Equipment Manufacturers and is currently shipping with DVD and CD recordable systems from Adaptec, ADS Technologies, AIST, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, LaCie, Logitec, Micron, NEC Computers International, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Ricoh, V-One and more.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the world's leading developer of solutions for DVD title creation. Sonic MyDVD™ (http://www.mydvd.com) is the world's leading DVD application for consumers, and it is the DVD application of choice among leading OEMs of PCs, recordable drives, and video and graphics cards. Sonic DVDit!® (http://www.dvdit.com) is the leading DVD authoring application for videographers and corporate video producers; more than one million copies of DVDit! have been sold. Sonic DVD Creator®, Sonic Scenarist®, Sonic ReelDVD™ and Sonic DVD Producer 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. Sonic's AuthorScript engine for DVD formatting and burning is licensed by leading software developers including Adobe, Microsoft and Sony. Sonic is a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

About ArcSoft, Inc.
ArcSoft is an international leader in providing interactive digital media software for the desktop, embedded systems, mobile devices, and server infrastructures. Founded in 1994 and based in Fremont, California, ArcSoft's customers include leading global digital camera, printer, scanner, computer and consumer electronic manufacturers, and millions of licensed users. Today, the company has research and development centers in California's Silicon Valley and Hangzou, China, as well as sales and support offices in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.arcsoft.com.

Sonic Solutions, Sonic, the Sonic logo, Edit-on-DVD, MyDVD, OpenDVD and ReelDVD are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, DVD Creator, DVDit! and Scenarist are registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.