Metropolis DVD Expands DVD Production with Sonic

Production Capacity Doubled with Sonic Scenarist® and DVD PrePlay™

Las Vegas, Nevada (April 7, 2003) - Sonic Solutions, the world leader in DVD creation systems, announced today at the National Association of Broadcasters convention (NAB) that Metropolis DVD has expanded its DVD production capabilities with new systems and technology from Sonic. Capitalizing on the robust DVD-Video market in New York and on its reputation as an innovative and creative provider of DVD production services, Metropolis DVD, New York City’s premier DVD design and production house, has added four Sonic Scenarist workstations and a Sonic DVD PrePlay emulation system to its current installation of four Sonic DVD Creator® systems. The new systems also complement Metropolis DVD’s next-generation Sonic SD-2000 MPEG-2 encoders and will be utilized for high-end commercial production, music video, and feature film DVD encoding and authoring.

Sonic Scenarist is designed to meet the demanding requirements of professional authoring facilities looking for a powerful, feature-rich solution to produce titles for commercial and feature film distribution. Today, the majority of “Hollywood” DVDs are designed using Scenarist. Scenarist offers the ability to create DVDs with complex navigation, compelling and elaborate menu design, and the maximum in DVD player compliance and compatibility. DVD PrePlay, Sonic’s Windows-based DVD-Video emulation system, allows professional DVD production facilities to simplify and enhance their quality assurance procedures and will provide Metropolis DVD with a faster and more efficient workflow for DVD title creation."

We are extremely pleased to add Sonic Scenarist and DVD PrePlay to our full line of DVD services at Metropolis DVD,” said Dave Anthony, President of Design and Production at Metropolis DVD. “Having worked with Sonic since the very beginning, we have been able to produce many blockbuster DVDs such as Traffic and Do The Right Thing, as well as music titles such as The World According to Nappy, a disc designed and produced from the beginning as an interactive DVD, and the first DVD-only title to be nominated for a Grammy® award. Now that it’s time to expand our cutting-edge facility, we know that Sonic DVD technology will deliver what we need now and in the future.”

"Metropolis DVD’s clients have come to expect the most creative titles and the highest-possible quality in DVD production,” said Rolf Hartley, Vice President and General Manager of the Professional Products Group at Sonic. “We are extremely pleased that Metropolis DVD has chosen to double its capacity with Sonic, and we are confident that our Scenarist and DVD Preplay products will deliver beyond their expectations.

About the Sonic Scenarist Range of Products
With its extremely precise control of the DVD specification and the unequaled DVD-player compatibility of the titles it produces, Scenarist has become the backbone of the commercial DVD industry and is used to design and create the vast majority of blockbuster DVDs, feature releases, and high-end commercial titles available today.

Sonic Scenarist is available in three editions. Scenarist Studio offers a focused feature set for filmmakers and multimedia designers seeking advanced access to the DVD specification at an affordable price. Scenarist Studio includes the ability to create DVD-9 titles, work with 16:9 video content, and create DVDs with up to three camera angles. Scenarist Advanced adds copy protection, regional coding and closed caption support to the feature list. Scenarist Professional is the full-featured Hollywood-standard authoring tool used to create millions of DVD discs in commercial release. Scenarist Professional gives users the most complete level of control over the DVD specification and allows for the most interactive titles with up to nine video angles, DTS support, Text Data, Jacket Pictures and many other features. All editions use the same user interface and the same reliable and proven project and layout engine to ensure the most compatible discs.

About DVD PrePlay
Designed to meet the demanding requirements of professional authoring facilities producing titles for commercial distribution, DVD PrePlay provides detailed auditing of DVD playback functions as the disc plays through the DVD volume structure of DVD-5 or DVD-9 DVD image files. DVD Preplay includes hardware with Y/C video output and SPDIF digital audio output to accurately portray the experience consumers will have when a replicated disc is ultimately viewed on a standard DVD player.

DVD PrePlay is a comprehensive diagnostic tool, providing accurate viewing of all SPRM and GPRM parameters during emulation as well as Text Data support. With line-by-line debug mode and command sequence logging output, DVD PrePlay allows authors to verify the interactivity programmed into any DVD disc. This essential analysis of a DVD title not only accelerates the debugging process during authoring, but also verifies the functionality of finished discs even after they have been replicated, providing the ability to compare final discs with pre-replicated DVD masters to check the integrity of the manufacturing process.

About Metropolis DVD
With studios in New York City and London, England, Metropolis DVD is an award-winning full service design and production studio specializing in DVD creation for the entertainment industry, providing complete film and video production capability, as well as compression and authoring. Metropolis offers clients full-service, concept-to-completion creative services, including the design of interactive menus, special documentaries and featurettes.

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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