Sonic Launches DVD at Work 2003 Seminar Series

Marin County, California-- Sonic Solutions announced the launch of anew seminar series entitled DVD at Work 2003 to be offered in Februaryand March of this year. The seminar series, being staged in majorcities throughout the US, is designed to guide creative professionalsthrough a step-by-step discussion and demonstration on how to createand distribute compelling DVDs using Sonic's industry-standardauthoring solutions. To register or to learn more about the seminars,attendees can visit the Sonic website at www.sonic.com/seminars/.

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

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

"At the Sonic DVD at Work 2003 seminar, Sonic will show how easy ithas become for professional users to tap the power of DVD," said RolfHartley, General Manager of the Professional Products Group at SonicSolutions. "Complete with real-world demonstrations of Sonic's latestproducts and in-depth discussions on the latest developments in DVDtechnology, this seminar series is a must-see event for anyoneinterested in producing and selling titles in today's explosive DVDmarket."

The DVD at Work 2003 seminar series will expand on a focused rangeof topics including MPEG encoding, software transcoding, and OpenDVDtechnology that allows DVDs that have already been created to bere-opened and revised without reference to any original sourcematerials. Sonic's simplified point-and-click interactivity andautomatic navigation programming interface will also be discussed anddemonstrated.

Seminar speakers will explain workflow concepts, including DVDediting and revision concepts available with OpenDVD-compliantauthoring, and how DVD producers can create extremely advanced DVDtitles very quickly using multiple languages and subtitles, AVI files,and MPEG from their NLE suite.

Step-by-step demonstrations of the DVD production process willfeature solutions such as Scenarist Studio, the latest addition toSonic¹s Scenarist range of products used to create the vastmajority of Hollywood and commercial releases. Scenarist Studio isdesigned for independent studios, professional multimedia designers,and anyone needing to tap the same technology that powers the HollywoodDVD industry ­ at an affordable price. Attendees can also find outmore about Sonic's advanced DVD Producer system including the SD-Seriesencoders, designed to simplify the production of sophisticated DVDtitles.

The first DVD at Work 2003 seminar will be held in San Francisco,with additional seminars scheduled throughout the United States,through March 2003.

About Sonic Solutions
Based in Marin County, Calif., Sonic (www.sonic.com) is a supplier of DVDcreation software. Sonic's core strengths include in-depth knowledge ofthe DVD and CD digital media formats and the video and audio data typesthey require, and the design of friendly, yet powerful, authoring andediting applications for the consumer, desktop and professional CD andDVD markets.