Sonic Ships DVD Producer™ Version 3.1

Award-Winning Product Combines Ease-of-Use with "Hollywood" Sophistication

Marin County, California (May 16, 2002) – Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC], today announced the release of its award-winning DVD Producer 3.1 software DVD authoring suite. Signaling a new standard for DVD authoring, DVD Producer's revolutionary technology recently earned it a Pick Hit of NAB 2002 award from Video Systems magazine.

Sonic DVD Producer is an integrated and complete DVD-Video and DVD-ROM authoring system for Windows, and incorporates full support for the new OpenDVD™ standard for DVD interchange. DVD Producer features JumpAnywhere™, an advanced point-and-click navigation programming interface that eliminates userscripting while delivering highly-advanced interactivity. In addition, the application also features real-time bit-for-bit project proofing, Sonic's Hollywood-standard AuthorScript™-powered multiplexing and formatting engine, and WriteDirect™single-step output to the widest range of DVD-Recordable devices. DVD Producer also includes real-time MPEG video transcoding from FireWire and comprehensive DVD-ROM authoring, including provision for dual-layer ROM authoring.

"DVD Producer is one of the easiest to use and yet one of the most sophisticated authoring systems I have ever seen," said Steve Crozier, award-winning DVD producer at Midas Productions in Dublin, Ireland. "DVD interactivity and navigation that has previously taken a significant amount of user scripting expertise is now possible with just a few clicks of the mouse. It's truly brilliant."

DVD Producer was recently recognized at NAB 2002 by Video Systems with their Pick Hit award, an honor determined by a panel of judges consisting of Video Systems editors and contributing editors, augmented by industry experts. In order to be designated a "Pick Hit," products are judged based on criteria such as innovation, positive impact on users' everyday work, providing substantial improvement to previous technology, and prices that are within the reach of the intended users.

"Sonic is fully committed to the new OpenDVD standard, and DVD Producer provides the most comprehensive support anywhere for this exciting format," stated Matt Palmer, Senior Product Manager for Sonic's Professional Products Group. "DVD Producer is built on Sonic's AuthorScript formatting engine, a standard for commercial title production in Hollywood, and as a result delivers an exceptional solution for professional DVD creators that allows them to focus on what they do best – create compelling DVDs, while relying on Sonic's expertise to ensure technical compatibility."

About OpenDVD
OpenDVD is a revolutionary technology that makes DVD discs dynamic and changeable. Until now, DVD-video has been a static medium; once the DVD content on a disc was finalized, making even minor modifications was a major task that required the reconstruction of the entire disc from the original source files. The OpenDVD format changes all that by incorporating a special file in the DVD-ROM "zone" of a DVD disc that contains all the information needed to open a disc as a project file in any OpenDVD-compliant application, to work with all of the disc's existing contents, and to update the project with new content, menus, and more extensive interactivity. OpenDVD-compliant discs may be revised without reference to any original source materials making every DVD a living archive of the original video project, substantially saving hard drive space, archiving media costs, and hours of time. OpenDVD technology maintains the full feature-set of the DVD-Video format and complete compatibility with recordable/rewritable DVD and CD media. OpenDVDs are viewable in all standard DVD playback settings, from set-top players to computerhosted DVD drives.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the worlds 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.