Avid Chooses Sonic ReelDVD® for Avid Xpress DV PowerPack Pro Bundle

Provides Award-winning DVD Publishing Solution to Creative Professionals using Avid Editing Systems

Las Vegas, Nevada (April 7, 2003) – Sonic Solutions announced today at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) that Avid Technology, Inc. will bundle Sonic ReelDVD LE with its Avid Xpress DV v3.5 PowerPack digital video editing software and its successive products.

Based on the same Sonic DVD technology that is the standard for Hollywood title production, ReelDVD LE offers the most affordable professional DVD authoring and is designed to bring the power of DVD publishing to nonlinear video editors. The combination of Sonic's ReelDVD LE and Avid Xpress DV software provides producers and editors with the ability to edit analog or DV video, encode projects to MPEG-2, and author compelling DVD titles with motion menus, exciting still and slide shows, multiple audio and subtitle streams, and the confidence of the highest level of DVD player compatibility. Avid Xpress DV PowerPack Pro, featuring ReelDVD LE, will be demonstrated in the Avid booth at NAB this week (Avid booth #SL300).

“For many years Avid and Sonic have collaborated to provide professional users with the very best in editing and DVD publishing solutions, and we are pleased to extend our relationship to include Sonic ReelDVD,” said Ken Miles, Director of Business Development at Avid. “Together, Avid Xpress DV and Sonic ReelDVD provide the ideal digital media creation solution for high-quality, advanced DVD title production that is both easy to use and extremely powerful.”

"Avid is the acknowledged leader in providing high-power solutions to the professional video editing industry, and we are very excited to expand our relationship to bring DVD production to their large base of professional video producers and editors,” said Rolf Hartley, Vice President and General Manager of Sonic’s Professional Products Group. “With the powerful ability to edit content in the familiar Avid production environment and then publish work in the universally-accepted DVD format, the Avid Xpress DV - ReelDVD bundle is unequivocally a perfect match."

About Sonic ReelDVD
Designed for the rapidly-growing market for corporate, in–house, multimedia, event videography and independent productions, Sonic ReelDVD extends the limits of entry-level professional DVD creation by providing full-stream support for audio and expanded subtitles in a simple-to-learn-and-use interface. Integrated with the Hollywood-standard Sonic Scenarist® DVD engine and based on technology that has become the foundation of the commercial DVD release industry, ReelDVD delivers the maximum level of DVD player compatibility. ReelDVD also provides a powerful migration path, permitting video facilities to move easily to the more sophisticated authoring capabilities within Sonic’s professional product line as their needs increase.

About Avid Xpress DV
Designed by and for video professionals, Avid Xpress DV v3.5 software combines industry-standard Avid quality, compatibility, and ease-of-use with amazing portability, connectivity, and real-time features - all at an affordable price. All versions of the Avid Xpress DV v3.5 software provide bi-directional project compatibility with Avid Media Composer®, Symphony™, NewsCutter®, and Avid Xpress systems, so every creative decision made can be transferred to and from these popular high-end systems found in virtually all professional studios.

Avid Xpress DV v3.5 is built on a revolutionary real-time architecture that delivers more than 100 customizable real-time effects, professional-level color correction with waveform and vectorscope analysis, and multiple simultaneous real-time streams - all in software. Users can preview a title, apply a dissolve, perform color correction, and animate a picture-in-picture effect simultaneously - all without rendering. And only Avid Xpress DV v3.5 software allows users to customize every parameter of every real-time effect and see it all right away. Avid Xpress DV provides the creative freedom and image quality needed to deliver professional-grade video on a desktop, laptop, or mountaintop - anywhere your imagination takes you.

About Avid Technology, Inc.
Avid Technology, Inc. delivers the solutions that Make, Manage and Move Media™. As a recognized digital standard for professionals who Make the world's media – from video, audio and film to animation, special effects and streaming media – Avid's products are used to make more television and news shows, commercials, music videos and CDs, corporate/industrial productions and major motion pictures combined than any other nonlinear editing manufacturer in the world. Building on its award-winning heritage, which includes several Emmy® awards as well as an Oscar® statuette representing the 1998 Scientific and Technical Award for the concept, design and engineering of the Avid Film Composer® system for motion picture editing, Avid is extending its reach by redefining how digital media is shared, stored and distributed. To Manage today's increasingly rich collection of dynamic media, Avid provides powerful servers, networks and media tools to help customers search files, share media and collaborate on new productions, both locally and globally. Avid's solutions also empower users to easily Move media, whether on air, over cable or satellite or through the Internet. Like no other media company today, Avid's end-to-end solutions span the continuum of media creation, management and distribution. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Tewksbury, MA. More information about Avid is available at www.avid.com.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions (http://www.sonic.com) is the world's leading supplier of DVD creation software for professional, industrial and consumer applications. The majority of major film releases on DVD have been produced on Sonic's professional DVD authoring systems in studios around the world. Sonic's MyDVD® and DVDit!® are the most widely used DVD creation applications by consumers and video enthusiasts and are the solutions of choice among the key PC and after-market drive suppliers. Sonic's RecordNow is a leading solution for audio and data mastering. Sonic's AuthorScript, the DVD and CD formatting and burning engine that underlies Sonic's applications, is the most widely deployed DVD software engine and has been licensed by Adobe, Microsoft, Sony, and many others.

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