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Partnership Adds DVD Authoring to Streaming Media Production of iFinish

With DVDit!SE for iFinish, users can now create complex interactive content on their PC and publish it on DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and CD-R. Combining an easy-to-use user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD formatting technology, DVDit!SE and iFinish provide customers with a turnkey solution for creating high-quality video and highly interactive DVDs - all in one system.

Designed to work directly with MPEG-2 video created with iFinish's RealTimeMPEG Option(TM), DVDit!SE allows producers to create interactive DVD titles with multiple menus linking to motion video, slide shows or other graphic content. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, building DVD titles is as simple as selecting a menu background and moving MPEG-2 video files onto it to create interactive links. DVDit!SE automatically builds buttons and interactivity, transcodes still graphics or AVI files to MPEG-2, and formats content for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs.

``DVD is fast becoming ubiquitous as the number of set-top DVD-Video and PC-based DVD-ROM units continues to grow at the fastest rate of any video device in history,'' said John Molinari, chief executive officer of Media 100. ``The ability to display full-screen, high-resolution video on a PC monitor is driving the use of DVD-ROM for everything from training to marketing to e-commerce. This explosive growth is creating a new market for integrated video production and high-quality DVD authoring. We partnered with Sonic Solutions to produce a feature-rich version of DVDit! for Media 100 that would allow our customers to exploit the richness of the DVD format.''

``Customers interested in producing video for DVD-ROM want a video production environment that is tightly integrated with a robust, yet easy to use DVD authoring package,'' said Mary Sauer, senior vice president of business development at Sonic Solutions. ``DVDit!SE for iFinish adds high-quality DVD authoring to the streaming media production capabilities of iFinish, delivering a complete solution for today's new media content creators.''

Feature-rich DVDit!SE includes:

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--   Interactive DVD Authoring Support
     --   Multiple nested menus
     --   First play creation
     --   Slide show creation
     --   Real-time proofing

--   Graphics Support
     --   Drop shadows, bevels, glow, and emboss of graphical elements
     --   Adobe® Photoshop® file support with multiple layers
     --   TGA, BMP, TIF file support

--   Audio Support
     --   WAV, MP3, MPEG-1 layer II audio file support

--   Output Support
     --   DVDit!SE supports direct writing to DVD-R and CD-R devices.
          DVD formatting includes UDF and ISO-9660 file support
          with Joliet extensions.
     --   Each DVDit! SE project can be exported as a Sonic
          AuthorScript(TM) (for compatibility with higher end
          Mac-based DVD Creator or DVD Fusion systems).

About Sonic Solutions

Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC - news) designs and manufactures DVD publishing systems used by video, audio and multimedia professionals around the world to prepare music, video, film, graphics and entertainment software. Sonic DVD Creator is the leading system for producing content for the DVD format, and has been used to create thousands of DVD titles worldwide, for applications ranging from feature film releases to corporate and industrial titles. Sonic also offers SonicStudio HD, the leading digital audio workstation used by audio professionals to prepare recorded sound for release on DVD and CD, as well as for film and video soundtracks and broadcast. Sonic is a leader in advancing DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technology and is a full voting-member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

About Media 100

Media 100 Inc. of Marlboro, Mass., USA (Nasdaq:MDEA - news) focuses on the digital content creation and delivery marketplace. Since 1993, its award-winning Media 100® and Finish(TM) digital video systems for Macintosh and Windows NT have redefined the digital video industry by making content creation easier, more productive, and more affordable for traditional video customers. With over 24,000 systems installed in more than 50 countries worldwide, the company's digital video systems are used in the creation of programs for broadcast and cable television, education, corporate training, animation, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and streaming media for the Internet. For more information, visit www.media100.com. Terran Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media 100, develops and markets Media Cleaner Pro which is widely recognized as the industry standard application for preparing the highest quality streaming Internet video. Visit www.terran.com for information about Media Cleaner products.

Media 100 and Media Cleaner are registered trademarks of Media 100 Inc. All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Terran Interactive is a wholly owned subsidiary of Media 100 Inc.

Contact:

     Media 100, Inc.
     Kevin Bourke
     508.303.4825
     kbourke@media100.com
     or
     Sonic Solutions
     Paul Lefebvre
     415.893.8000
     paul_lefebvre@sonic.com
     or
     Shandwick International
     Hugh Burnham/Daryl Wise
     617.351.4105/831.763.8313
     hburnham@shandwick.com
     dwise@shandwick.com