Sonic Users Win Top Honors at Prestigious DVD Excellence Awards; Awards Presented at DVD Association Annual Conference.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MARIN COUNTY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2001

Sonic Solutions announced today that over eighty percent of the award-winning projects at the 2001 DVD Excellence Awards Ceremony of the DVD Association (DVDA) were created by Sonic users. The 2001 DVD Excellence Award is the highlight of the annual DVDA conference, an event that attracts the industry's leaders in DVD technology and title production.

"The winners of the DVD Excellence Award are the undisputed cream of the crop, and we are honored that they selected Sonic as their production system," said Mark Ely, vice-president of marketing at Sonic Solutions. "These are the users that take advantage of the most complex features available in the DVD specification to deliver highly-interactive and powerful titles that pack that extra punch."

The DVD Excellence Award was created to recognize skill, creativity and craftsmanship in DVD creation, authoring and publication. The overall quality of the finished DVD-Video, DVD-ROM or web-integrated DVD titles were assessed and the skills used in the creation of each title were evaluated and scored by an independent panel of DVD experts, based upon a set of objective criteria established prior to judging. The judges were asked to evaluate each item using the criteria and assign a score, up to a maximum of 100 points. All entries receiving an average total score of 90 points or above earned a DVD Excellence Award.

DVD Creator Wins MIPA Award

Sonic DVD Creator also recently received the Musikmesse International Press Award (MIPA) for Best Mastering System. In an evaluation conducted by thirty-one industry trade magazines from around the world, DVD Creator was selected as best mastering system of 2000/2001. The awards ceremony was held on March 8 at the Musikmesse convention in Frankfurt, Germany.

About Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC)

Based in Marin County, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing. Sonic DVDit!(TM) (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at videographers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Sonic MyDVD(TM) (http://www.mydvd.sonic.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." Sonic DVD Creator(R), Sonic Scenarist(R), Sonic ReelDVD(R) and Sonic DVD Fusion(R) are the most widely-used systems for professional DVD publishing, and are installed worldwide at major studios, post production facilities and in corporate marketing departments. SonicStudio(R) HD is the leading digital workstation for preparing audio for release on CD and is the first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic is also a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

The above paragraphs of this press release contain forward looking statements that are based upon current expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties including, among others, the timely introduction and acceptance of new products, costs associated with new product introductions, the transition of products to new hardware configurations and platforms and other factors, including those discussed in the Company's annual and quarterly reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release should be read in conjunction with the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which contain a more detailed discussion of the Company's business including risks and uncertainties that may affect future results.

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