Sonic ReelDVD® Named Product of the Year

Selected Best DVD Authoring Software by Videomaker Magazine

Marin County, California (February 18, 2003) - Sonic Solutions announced today that Sonic ReelDVD has received Videomaker Magazine’s 2002 Product of the Year Award for the Best Advanced DVD Authoring Software in the sub-$1000 category. The product is featured in the special awards section of the February issue of Videomaker magazine, the industry’s leading publication for videographers and video enthusiasts.

Best Products of the Year winners are chosen by Videomaker’s editorial staff. These products represent the highest achievements in quality, innovation, ease of use, dependability, and performance. Winning products are those that score the highest within their categories, relative to the competition."

Our judges choose products they feel set a new standard for innovation in the video creation industry," said Stephen Muratore, Editor in Chief of Videomaker Magazine. "This award recognizes Sonic’s important contribution to videography with ReelDVD, and we congratulate them on a product that delivers many professional DVD authoring features and a high level of compatibility at a reasonable price. We believe ReelDVD will find ready acceptance among videographers who work for schools, businesses, churches and other organizations; and those who earn money from the craft at least some of the time."

Sonic ReelDVD extends the limits of traditional DVD creation by providing the video enthusiast and the entry-level professional DVD author with advanced features including support for multiple audio streams, expanded subtitles, motion menus and Dolby Digital audio. Built on the same technology used in Sonic Scenarist®, the DVD creation standard of Hollywood DVD production studios, ReelDVD delivers the highest level of DVD player compatibility that has become the foundation of the commercial DVD release industry. Sonic ReelDVD provides an intuitive user experience and delivers a powerful pallet of design tools to create compelling DVDs. ReelDVD also burns directly to the latest selection of DVD-Recordable devices including DVD–R/RW and DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, CD–R/RW, and DLT.

"DVD is the perfect media for our work with HIV education to a multi-lingual audience", said Dr. Janet Stockard Sullivan, Patient Education Specialist for the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of the University of South Florida. "ReelDVD allows us to very easily produce DVD titles in English, Spanish and Haitian-Creole languages, including intricate navigation and graphics, for providing very complex instructions to our patients on taking their many medications. ReelDVD has made it possible for us to deliver a more powerful and effective message."

"Videomaker is a key industry barometer for technical advancement and production developments for videographers," said Rolf Hartley, General Manager for Sonic’s Professional Products Group. "We are delighted that ReelDVD has been recognized for its power and stability in providing advanced DVD authoring to the video creation industry."

About Sonic ReelDVD
Sonic ReelDVD is designed for video enthusiasts, independent filmmakers, corporate communicators and event videographers in search of a powerful, easy, and cost-efficient way to create professional-level DVD titles. Built upon the same industry-proven DVD formatting technology incorporated into Scenarist, Sonic's Hollywood-standard authoring system, ReelDVD combines the strength of professional-level software with a friendly user interface and simple workflow, making the process of creating professional-quality DVDs fast, reliable and easy.

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.

Sonic, the Sonic logo, CinePlayer, Edit-on-DVD, OpenDVD, and PrimeTime are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, Sonic DVD Creator, MyDVD, DVDit!, ReelDVD, Scenarist and Sonic Solutions 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.