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Seattle, WA — Market newcomer Automatic Duck, Inc., a
Seattle, WA, based software development company targeting the nonlinear
editing and effects industry, announces the release of OMF Composition
Import, a plug-in for Adobe After Effects 5.0. OMF Composition Import
revolutionizes the workflow process used by Avid system editors and graphic
designers who import projects into Adobe After Effects 5.0.

OMF Composition Import streamlines the previously time consuming process
of importing projects into Adobe After Effects from Avid nonlinear editing
systems. In one simple step, OMF Composition Import transfers an entire
Avid system timeline into Adobe After Effects 5.0 and imports all the media
necessary to perfectly recreate a project.

Instantaneously, OMF Composition Import reconstructs an Avid system
timeline. Supported effects like dissolves, superimposes, flops, motion
effects, and more, are seamlessly translated into the After Effects 5.0
equivalent. With the strength of OMF Composition Import, even the most
complex projects import with amazing ease­as collapsed layers in the Avid
timeline automatically become nested compositions in After Effects 5.0.

OMF Composition Import by Automatic Duck, Inc. is scheduled for availability
in Q2 2001. Pricing for OMF Composition Import will be $495 US MSRP. It
will be available for purchase through the Automatic Duck website at
http://www.automaticduck.com or through Toolfarm, Inc. at
http://www.toolfarm.com.

Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) announces that it has reached an agreement with Daikin Industries, Ltd., of Japan under which Sonic will combine Daikin¹s DVD authoring business with Sonic¹s professional DVD operations. Under the terms of the agreement, Daikin will maintain an equity interest in Sonic Solutions signifying the strategic importance of the union. Sonic will acquire the Daikin products, including all intellectual property rights, and carry on development, marketing and sales activities on a worldwide basis. Further, Daikin will continue to be the exclusive distributor and service provider of the Daikin-originated authoring products in Japan.

“The addition of Daikin¹s technology will further strengthen our leadership position,” said Bob Doris, President of Sonic Solutions. “Daikin introduced Scenarist, the first authoring application for professional DVD creation, in 1996 and that system is still a Œgold standard¹ in the industry. Sonic has sold the largest number of professional DVD production systems of any company in the world. This deal truly combines the best with the best.”

CUPERTINO, California 2, the next generation of its award-winning video editing, compositing and
special effects software. Final Cut Pro 2 is a powerful, all-in-one editing
solution, featuring real-time editing, breakthrough Power Mac G4
performance and a scalable architecture that allows users to output content
into any video format.

Final Cut Pro 2, running on our blazingly fast Power Mac G4 or PowerBook
G4, offers the specialized features and robust editing workflow sought after
by video professionals, without the expensive price tags,² said David Moody,
Apple¹s senior director of Applications Marketing. ³Final Cut Pro¹s
innovative, extensible real-time architecture gives editors what they need
most

With Final Cut Pro 2, real-time editing and compositing functions are
seamlessly integrated into the video production workflow. By simply adding
an optional, supported real-time processing card, video editors can
instantly perform wipes, dissolves, and 2D motion graphics effects,
dramatically increasing their creative freedom and efficiency. Final Cut
Pro¹s real-time architecture allows third-party manufacturers to create
hardware that supports a variety of professional editing features and
formats. The first card to support Final Cut Pro¹s real-time architecture is
the RTMac card from Matrox, which provides real-time broadcast-quality
transitions and effects, and uncompressed, 32-bit, animated graphics in a
dual-stream, native-DV editing environment.

Final Cut Pro 2 takes advantage of the supercomputing performance of Apple¹s
new Power Mac G4 and PowerBook® G4 lines, and the new QuickTime 5
architecture, to deliver dramatic gains in video editing productivity. On
compute-intensive operations, Final Cut Pro 2 is up to 30% faster on G4
systems and 70% faster on dual-processor G4 systems, when compared to the
previous generation¹s performance on similarly configured systems.

Final Cut Pro works with Apple¹s new DVD Studio Pro to form a complete
system for professional digital content creation and delivery. From within
Final Cut Pro, users can invoke DVD Studio Pro¹s powerful compression engine
to encode their edited video sequences into MPEG2. Using DVD Studio Pro,
they can author sophisticated navigation menus, preview disk operation in
real time, and burn DVDs using the Power Mac G4¹s new SuperDrive for
playback on consumer DVD players.

Final Cut Pro 2 will be available beginning March 19, 2001 through The Apple
Store® (www.apple.com) and through Authorized Apple Resellers for a
suggested retail price of $999 (US). Existing users can upgrade to the new
version of Final Cut Pro for $249 (US). Final Cut Pro 2 requires Mac® OS
9.1, a Macintosh® computer with a 300-MHz or faster PowerPC G3 or G4
processor, QuickTime 5, 192MB of RAM (256MB of RAM for real-time
processing), and 20MB of available disk space for installation. More
information on Final Cut Pro, including a list of certified, compatible
hardware and software can be found at www.apple.com/finalcutpro.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. March 1, 2001 - Videometry, Inc., digital content
creators and producers of Imagery + Motion X Digital royalty-free
stock footage, today announced an agreement with Roxio, formerly the
Software Products Group division of the Adaptec Inc., to license
Videometry imagery for Roxio CD burning software. The license and
bundling deal allows Roxio to include up to 25 of Videometry’s media
clips in both the Easy CD Creator and Toast product lines. Roxio
will create a separate CD package to be included in all copies of the
CD burning software exclusively featuring Videometry imagery.
Videometry imagery will also be made available on the Roxio website
to registered users of Roxio’s CD burning software.

“The Videometry media clips add a fantastic value to our CD recording
products,” said Barbara Murphy, Director of Product Marketing at
Roxio. “The Bonus CD is a convenient way for the user to gain access
to a variety of images.”

MARLBORO, Mass.–March 1, 2001–Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ: MDEA), the
leading provider of software, systems and services for streaming media
on the Internet, today announced the immediate availability of Cleaner
MPEG Charger– a software-only MPEG solution for Cleaner 5 users with
comprehensive control over MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 content creation for DVD,
Video CD, CD-ROM and digital broadcasting.

“Cleaner MPEG Charger is a must-have option for content creators
who need to create and deliver world-class MPEG content,” said Stephen
Manousos, vice president of sales and marketing for the Media 100
software division. “Charger adds value to Cleaner 5 by enabling
unprecedented flexibility and speed by optimizing video for DVD
content and the Web. We are enabling our customers to deliver
world-class MPEG content faster than they ever could before.”

Cleaner MPEG Charger works seamlessly with Cleaner 5, allowing
users to create professional-quality MPEG content from all popular
video, audio and animation file formats, even Macromedia Flash–with
all of the power and ease-of-use of the award-winning Cleaner 5.

MARLBORO, Mass.–March 1, 2001–Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ: MDEA), the
leading provider of software, systems and services for streaming media
on the Internet, today announced that CineStream, the industry’s first
software-based interactive streaming media authoring solution for web
developers and professional content creators, is available
immediately.

Media 100 CineStream enables a broader range of customers to
create and deliver superior quality, highly-interactive streaming
media programs for delivery over the Internet. CineStream provides a
unique, software-based approach to creating video programs
specifically designed for the interactive nature of the Internet and
is ideally suited for customers entering the burgeoning streaming
media marketplace.

“Media 100 is continually developing software innovations to solve
key issues for our customers in the burgeoning digital media design
and delivery space,” said Stephen Manousos, vice president of sales
and marketing for the Media 100 Software Division. “Our customers not
only need innovative approaches to creating and delivering digital
media, they also need options. CineStream is the most powerful
software-based interactive streaming media authoring solution on the
market today.”