Forum for Creative Video Professionals Focuses on DVD Creation for Applications Including Corporate, Training, Education and Film

Marin County, CA (July 29, 2003) - Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq: SNIC) today announced the launch of a new seminar series entitled Real World DVD to be offered starting today through September of this year. The seminar tour, being staged in major cities throughout the US, discusses "real-world" approaches to creating DVDs in various fields including education, training, corporate, government, and film. Featuring examples of finished titles and how they were created, the Real World DVD seminar 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 the standard for delivering high-quality content to millions of people in every market segment. Using Sonic's industry-proven professional DVD creation technology, creative professionals can easily 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 Real World DVD tour is designed to provide creative professionals with the information they need to design and promote DVD titles quickly and easily.

"At Real World DVD, attendees will gain knowledge and understanding of DVD production, how the latest technological advancements have made it extremely easy to begin offering professional DVD services, and how the approach to creating titles for one application can differ from another," said Simon James, Marketing Manager for the Professional Products Group at Sonic. "In addition to highlighting real-world examples of professional DVD titles that will inspire their own designs, attendees will discover Sonic's complete authoring solutions in action and learn how easy it has become to harness the power of DVD for their own business."

The Real World DVD seminar tour will expand on a focused range of topics including the streamlined workflow of MPEG encoding, software transcoding, and OpenDVD^® interchange that allows finished DVDs to be edited and revised without reference to any original source materials. Sonic's navigation programming interface, JumpAnywhere™, that provides users with the ability to create highly advanced title programming with a simple point-and-click interface will also be discussed and demonstrated.

Seminar speakers will explain workflow concepts, including planning a DVD title to ensure that its production progresses smoothly and without bottlenecks, and determining the type of disc to be created by evaluating factors such as levels of interactivity, chapter points, length on content, and need for templates. Determining the types of assets required, what types of audio work best, different approaches to encoding material, the use of third-party tools, and techniques for keeping track of assets will also be discussed. In addition, attendees will learn why authoring professional-level DVD titles take skills, creativity, and the right tools and techniques. Attendees will discover time-proven techniques to create compelling DVD content, including building templates, making interactive quizzes, and time-saving tricks to help them create discs more productively.

Real World DVD seminars have been scheduled throughout the United States, through mid-September 2003. To register or to learn more about the events, 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 and CD 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 leading 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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