Sonic Foundry Announces Support of RealNetworks' Latest Broadband-Ready Enhancements to RealSystem G2

Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, today announced the release of Vegas[TM] Video, an integrated video and audio editing system, which supports the latest improvements in RealVideo[R] G2.

"Sonic Foundry has once again quickly leveraged the rich extensibility of RealSystem G2 by seamlessly integrating support for RealVideo G2's world-class broadband video capabilities," said Ben Rotholtz, general manager, systems and tools, RealNetworks, Inc. "Vegas Video is timely and well directed at the broadband content producers who have recognized the opportunity to deliver high quality rich media experiences to over 115 million unique registered RealPlayer users."

"We are looking forward to working with RealNetworks and our other partners to bring Vegas Video to the PC Market," said Curtis J. Palmer, co-founder and chief technical officer of Sonic Foundry. "By utilizing recent technological advances offered by the industry, Vegas Video is able to offer the highest quality in audio and video media output."

About Vegas Video

Vegas Video is a non-linear, digital video and audio editing system designed for video editors working with Digital Video (DV) and video destined for Internet, Intranet, and multimedia applications. Vegas Video offers unlimited tracks of video and audio, with each track featuring its own A/B tracks, advanced compositing tools, automatic crossfading, keyframeable filters, transitions, and other effects. Multiple media formats can be added on the same track at the same time without conversion or rendering. To complete the multimedia solution, Vegas Video also hosts the full line of audio processing capabilities from Sonic Foundry's award-winning Vegas Pro audio editing software. It delivers correct aspect ratios that depend on the pixel shape for each medium including D1, D2, and DVCam, deinterlacing, and the ability to render out to broadcast video resolutions. DV capture and print-to-tape tools are included and work directly with the Windows OS and supported 1394/OHCI cards. Vegas Video allows direct save application to RealSystem G2, Windows Media, QuickTime, MP3, and other popular formats.