Sonic Launches DVD at Work 2003 Seminar Series

Forum for Creative Video Professionals Focuses on Latest Techniques for Creating Hollywood-quality DVDs

Marin County, California (February 5, 2003) - Sonic Solutions announced today the launch of a new seminar series entitled DVD at Work 2003 to be offered in February and March of this year. The seminar series, being staged in major cities throughout the US, is designed to guide creative professionals through a step-by-step discussion and demonstration on how to create and distribute compelling DVDs using Sonic's industry-standard authoring solutions. To register or to learn more about the seminars, attendees can visit the Sonic website at http://www.sonic.com/seminars/.

DVD is now the standard for delivering high-quality entertainment, training, corporate messaging, product information, and event video content to millions of people in every market segment. Using Sonic's industry-proven professional DVD creation technology, creative professionals can now encode video and audio content, author exciting menus and interactivity, burn the most compatible DVDs, and distribute their titles faster and easier than ever before. The DVD at Work 2003 tour is designed to provide creative professionals with the information they need to design and promote DVD titles quickly and easily.

With a special emphasis on breakthrough technology in DVD production to speed title production time to market, Sonic's DVD at Work 2003 tour will focus on real-world approaches to preparing content, handling assets, and creating elaborate interactive DVD titles.

“At the Sonic DVD at Work 2003 seminar, Sonic will show how easy it has become for professional users to tap the power of DVD,” said Rolf Hartley, General Manager of the Professional Products Group at Sonic Solutions. "Complete with real-world demonstrations of Sonic’s latest products and in-depth discussions on the latest developments in DVD technology, this seminar series is a must-see event for anyone interested in producing and selling titles in today's explosive DVD market."

The DVD at Work 2003 seminar series will expand on a focused range of topics including MPEG encoding, software transcoding, and OpenDVD® technology that allows DVDs that have already been created to be re-opened and revised without reference to any original source materials. Sonic's simplified point-and-click interactivity and automatic navigation programming interface will also be discussed and demonstrated.

Seminar speakers will explain workflow concepts, including DVD editing and revision concepts available with 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. Step-by-step demonstrations of the DVD production process will feature solutions such as Scenarist Studio™, the latest addition to Sonic’s Scenarist range of products used to create the vast majority of Hollywood and commercial releases. Scenarist Studio is designed for independent studios, professional multimedia designers, and anyone needing to tap the same technology that powers the Hollywood DVD industry – at an affordable price. Attendees can also find out more about Sonic's advanced DVD Producer™ system including the SD-Series encoders, designed to simplify the production of sophisticated DVD titles. The first DVD at Work 2003 seminar will be held in San Francisco, with additional seminars scheduled throughout the United States, through March 2003. To register or to learn more about the seminars, attendees can visit the Sonic website at http://www.sonic.com/seminars/.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the world’s leading supplier of DVD creation software. Sonic’s professional DVD authoring software is used to produce the majority of major film releases on DVD. Sonic’s desktop DVD creation software powers most of the world’s DVD burners, and Sonic’s CD and DVD mastering software is the top rated OEM solution for transferring and backing up data to CD and DVD media. Sonic's core strengths include in-depth knowledge of the DVD and CD digital media formats and the video and audio data types they require, and the design of friendly, yet powerful, authoring and editing applications for the consumer, desktop and professional CD and DVD markets.

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