Sonic Showcases DVD Producer At NAB

[J.A.F._Doorhof]

Sonic Solutions will introduce at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) Sonic DVD Producer, its latest innovation for professional DVD authoring. Providing all-in-one publishing for producers of professional multimedia DVDs, DVD Producer streamlines the process of creating DVDs by combining real-time MPEG-2 compression of DV video, high-performance transcoding of media files, powerful, yet simple to use DVD authoring, automatic navigation tools, and output to the widest range of DVD writing devices.

DVD Producer is the latest Sonic authoring application to to create OpenDVD-compliant discs. With OpenDVD, finished DVD discs can be opened for editing, video and audio content can be added or deleted, menus and navigation can be changed or expanded, and the finished project written to DVD-Recordable. DVDs created with other OpenDVD-compliant authoring applications are completely compatible with DVD Producer.

"Sonic DVD Producer gives us a very powerful way to publish DVDs in-house," said Ed Heubel, vice president and senior engineer at Bank of America's Knowledge Channel. "With DVD Producer, we are able to deliver our corporate messages to consumers effectively and interactively. Its encoder delivers exceptional quality MPEG-2 from our video sources, and DVD Producer's simple point-and-click interface is straightforward, yet incredibly powerful. And Sonic's high-performance implementation of the new OpenDVD standard means we can use our finished discs as an archive, for inevitable future updates."

Finished projects can be recorded directly to DVD-recordable in a single step without the need to create intermediate files. And because DVD Producer is OpenDVD-compliant, DVDs created with the software can be opened and edited to add or delete content later on. Sonic DVD Producer is available in two configurations. A software-based version includes MPEG-2 video transcoding and Dolby Digital audio encoding and is available at a suggested U.S. list price of $4,000. It includes a free copy of Sonic MyDVD software, with real-time MPEG-2 encoding. A DVD Producer workstation version features Sonic's advanced SD-1000 MPEG Real-time Hardware Encoder for superior-quality VBR and CBR video compression via SDI and simultaneous Dolby Digital Audio encoding in real-time. The SD-1000 also provides proofing to external video monitors and has a $13,000 SRP.

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