Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video Available for Sale at sonicfoundry.com

Sonic Foundry[R], Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFO), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, today announced that its Vegas[TM] Video digital video and audio editing system is now available for sale in a downloadable format at sonicfoundry.com at the download price of $629.10. A packaged version will be available in late June and will be priced at $699.00.

The latest addition to Sonic Foundry's award-winning Vegas software family, 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, broadcast production, multimedia creation, corporate presentations, training, distance education, and media centers.

"Vegas Video is true, professional, audio and video integration that bridges the gap between traditional broadcast and streaming media formats," said Curtis Palmer, chief technical officer and co-founder for Sonic Foundry. "It offers a new way of thinking that will revolutionize the creative approach involved in non-linear video editing."

Vegas Video 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 Vegas Pro audio editing software.

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 applications to RealSystem[R], Windows Media[R], QuickTime[TM], MP3, and other popular formats.