Sonic Foundry and Artbeats Team Up to Provide Digital Video Content

Sonic Foundry[R] Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, announced today its collaboration with Artbeats, a leading provider of digitized video content, to provide royalty-free digital stock media footage with its VideoFactory[TM] consumer-based video and audio editor. The content available for VideoFactory will include uncompressed AVI and QuickTime transitions, AVI Cinepak clips, and a variety of still images.

"Sonic Foundry's VideoFactory software provides the perfect platform for consumers to capitalize on the variety of digital stock footage we offer," stated Phil Bates, president of Artbeats. "We feel this relationship is a great step toward our common goal to provide the best content and content editor in the industry."

"This partnership enables Sonic Foundry to provide users of VideoFactory a full and comprehensive video source for all of their video creations. Adding professional stock footage to personal video projects provides a level of creative flexibility we feel users will greatly appreciate," said Jeff Conover, vice president of marketing at Sonic Foundry.

Artbeats Digital Film Library provides digitized video content directly from film with no analog conversion or compression. The media is scrutinized to remove any dust, scratches, and other artifacts for each frame of every clip, resulting in high-quality stock film footage.

About Artbeats

Artbeats, founded in 1989, is an award-winning provider of royalty-free stock footage for professional use in broadcast, desktop video, multimedia, Internet, and 3D texture mapping. The Artbeats Digital Film Library includes special effects, lifestyles, backgrounds, clouds, aerials, and much more.

VideoFactory users will be directed to the new Artbeats Web site, www.expressclips.com, where the hobbyist and family video producer can find exceptional footage for their needs at an affordable price.