Sonic Foundry Provides Award-Winning Editing Software for RealNetworks Online Promotion

Sonic Foundry[R] Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services and systems, today announced that Vegas[TM] Video will be featured as a video content creation component of a special RealNetworks[R] (NASDAQ: RNWK) RealServer[TM] Pro 100 Broadcast Solution available through September 25.

The solution is part of a RealNetworks promotion supporting the rapid growth of RealVideo[R] 8 content development. RealVideo 8, introduced by RealNetworks in May, 2000, delivers full-screen VHS-quality video at 500 kbps and high-quality video experiences to consumers at narrowband rates.

"RealNetworks is truly excited about this promotional opportunity," stated Geoff Walker, senior developer relations manager, RealNetworks. "With the inclusion of Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video software, we are able to offer a top-of-the-line, high-quality video editing solution that encodes to the RealVideo 8 format."

The inclusion of Vegas Video, Sonic Foundry's award-winning video and audio editor, in this special offer provides content developers, broadcasters, and network providers all the necessary tools to create, edit, and deliver streaming media. Customers who purchase RealNetworks' RealServer Pro 100 Broadcast Solution will receive, at no additional cost, Sonic Foundry's award-winning Vegas Video editing software package.

"RealNetworks RealServer Pro 100 Broadcast Solution is a powerful and sophisticated tool. We feel that adding Vegas Video to the promotional offer will allow users to produce exceptional streaming video content," stated Jeff Conover, vice president of marketing for Sonic Foundry.

About Vegas Video

Vegas Video integrates video editing, video compositing, audio editing, and advanced encoding tools into one application. The software is designed for digital video production, streaming video content creation, broadcast production, multimedia creation, corporate presentations, training, distance education, and media centers.

It offers unlimited tracks of video and audio, advanced compositing tools, automatic crossfades, keyframeable filters, track motion, 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 multitrack audio editing software, Vegas[TM] Audio.

In addition, Vegas Video 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 it supports OHCI-compliant IEEE–1394/DV capture cards. Vegas Video allows direct save to RealSystem[R], Windows Media[TM] Technologies, QuickTime[TM], MP3, and other popular formats.