Sonic Foundry Announces Viscosity

Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, announced the release of Viscosity[TM], a pixel-based, 2D-animation software application that fuses the process of image editing and animation by fully integrating individual frame editing, animation effects, web optimization, and real-time playback.

Viscosity supports the creation of compelling animated web images such as banners, buttons, bullets, rollover effects, and dynamic clip art and offers precise conversion and optimization options in GIF, JPG, and AVI formats. The software also fully integrates real-time video, image, and animation processes, allowing the user to seamlessly edit any frame of an animation or video sequence.

Viscosity is compatible with any video digital editing system and can be combined with other Sonic Foundry applications such as ACID[TM], Sound Forge[TM], Vegas[TM] Pro, and Stream Anywhere[TM] for a complete content creation solution for the Web. Viscosity is priced at $199 and is available exclusively in downloadable format at sonicfoundry.com.

"Viscosity adds to Sonic Foundry's powerful lineup of web media tools," stated Jeff Conover, vice president of Marketing for Sonic Foundry. "The product provides the feature-rich and valuable web animation applications needed in the digital video editing industry."