Marin County, California (May 21, 2002) ­ Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC], announced today the launch of an eight-city seminar series entitled DVD at Work to be offered May through July of this year. The free seminar, co-sponsored by Cinram, Mitsui Advanced Media, and Videography magazine, is designed to empower corporate in-house video and multimedia professionals to expand their services through revolutionary breakthroughs in high-quality DVD production capability.

The seminar series will discuss and review revolutionary technology that removes the technology barrier associated with DVD production. The series will also cover real-world approaches to preparing content, handling assets, and creating elaborate interactive DVD titles, as well as provide attendees with important information on the latest solutions available to reach their customers with DVD. To register or to learn more about the seminars, attendees can visit the Sonic website at www.sonic.com/seminars.

Designed to assist video post facility owners, corporate communications groups, video production managers, multimedia publishers, and DVD title authors, this series will also introduce a wide range of topics such as OpenDVD™ and JumpAnywhere. OpenDVD technology allows DVDs that have already been created to be re-opened and revised without reference to any original source materials. Sonic's revolutionary JumpAnywhere™ simplified point-and-click interactivity and navigation programming interface removes all user-scripting from the authoring process.

Special attention will be taken to explain workflow concepts including DVD editing and revision concepts available through OpenDVD-compliant authoring, and how DVD producers can create extremely advanced DVD titles very quickly using multiple languages and subtitles, AVI files, and MPEG from their NLE suite. Other topics covered at the event include approaches to tap the entertainment power of DVD, methods of creating DVD-based products for their clients, keys to understanding today's market and customer demographics, project planning strategies, and rethinking facility design for DVD production.

"DVD is now a key business tool for diverse applications like multimedia publishing, product promotion, event videography, and training," said Rolf Hartley, General Manager, Professional Products Group at Sonic. "The DVD at Work seminar series offers a close look at new DVD technologies that provide unprecedented access and affordability to the DVD revolution for every media video production professional. This series is a must-see event." Step-by-step demonstrations of the DVD production process will be shown featuring the Sonic ReelDVD Workstation including the SD-Series SD-500 encoder, and Sonic's new DVD Producer system designed to simplify the production of highly advanced DVD titles.

The first of the DVD At Work seminars will be held in Boston, with additional seminars scheduled in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and Portland, through July 2002. To register or to learn more about the free seminars, attendees may visit the Sonic website at www.sonic.com/seminars. For additional information, customers may also email the seminar coordinator at dvdseminar@sonic.com.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the world's leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD creation. Sonic DVD Creator®, Sonic Scenarist!®, Sonic ReelDVD®, Sonic DVD Producer™and Sonic DVD Fusion for Mac 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 MyDVD™ (http://www.mydvd.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, and is the leading DVD solution among DVD recorder and PC manufacturers. Sonic DVDit!® (http://www.dvdit.com) is the leading DVD authoring application for videographers and corporate video producers; more than 1 million copies of DVDit! have been sold. AuthorScript, based on the same Sonic technology that has become the Hollywood standard for commercial title production, is the industry's most widely adopted set of developer tools for integrating DVD, Video CD (VCD) and Super Video CD (SVCD) creation into video applications. Sonic is a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, DVD Editing, and MyDVD, are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, Sonic DVD Creator, DVDit!, ReelDVD, 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.