Sonic Foundry Enters into OEM Partnership with Canopus Corporation

Sonic Foundry[R], Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, today announced that it has entered into an OEM partnership with Canopus Corporation, manufacturer of award-winning, nonlinear video editing products for videographers.

Sonic Foundry is providing versions of its ACID[TM] Style 2.0 music creation software and its SIREN[TM] XPress 2.0 personal music manager to be bundled with the new Canopus DVRexRT Professional and DVStorm NLE solutions. ACID Style will be shipped with a 100 multi-genre loop library, and it supports English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. Users will be able to incorporate their own musical creations made with ACID Style into their video. SIREN XPress gives users a tool to download music and content from the Internet and to digitize music from their own personal music library to add into their videos.

"The inclusion of Sonic Foundry's award-winning audio software with our top-of-the-line DV NLEs provides the customer with a robust audio and video solution," stated Chuck Buelow, vice president of sales and marketing for Canopus Corporation. "We want to provide consumers with an all-in-one package for their creative projects, and this partnership enables us to do that."

"Canopus has positioned themselves as one of the leading providers of capture and editing solutions for professionals and consumers, and we feel that our superior audio technology provides a solution end users need for creating compelling video," stated Jeff Conover, vice president of marketing for Sonic Foundry. "SIREN XPress and ACID Style enable users to bring audio to their video and manage that content."

The DVRexRT Professional is a full-featured, professional-level NLE that boasts extensive real-time capabilities, delivering the features required by video professionals to capture and blend DV and high-end analog footage. With its component video I/O, balanced audio I/O, and RS-422 analog deck control, DVRexRT Professional allows capture of professional-level analog material without compromising quality. DVRexRT Professional includes real-time editing, MPEG encoding, DVD authoring, soundtrack creation, and Internet streaming tools to provide video editors with a complete NLE solution in one package.

DVStorm is an affordable real-time NLE that combines an extensive high-performance feature set with stability and reliability to deliver render-free, real-time digital video editing, DV and analog (S-Video and Composite video) input/output, and MPEG output for DVD and Web streaming. DVStorm features over 24 real-time filters including color correction, mosaic, emboss, slow motion, picture-in-picture, chroma key, luma key, and chrominance and 15 transitions including wipes, dissolves, slides, page curls, and stretch.

About Canopus Corporation

Based in San Jose, Calif., Canopus Corporation manufactures award-winning, nonlinear video editing products for videographers. Canopus's DV editing, MPEG-2 encoding, and 3-D DVE products combine innovative hardware and software designs to set new standards. Canopus Corporation's parent company, Canopus Co., Ltd., with headquarters in Kobe, is Japan's largest maker of video editing and graphics products. For more information contact Canopus at (408) 954-4500 or visit their Web site at www.justedit.com.