Madison, Wis., December 4, 2000 -- ACID Style 2.0 and SIREN XPress 2.0 Bundled with the Canopus DVRexRT Professional and DVStorm Digital Video Non-Linear Editing Capture Cards.

Sonic Foundry, Inc., a leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, today announced that it has entered into a OEM partnership with Canopus Corporation, manufacturer of award-winning, non-linear video editing products for videographers.

Sonic Foundry is providing versions of its ACID Style 2.0 music creation software and its SIREN Jukebox 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 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, non-linear video editing products for videographers. Canopus' DV editing, MPEG-2 encoding and 3D 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.

About Sonic Foundry
Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services and systems. Sonic Foundry's award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications, music, video, and broadcast solutions, and digital content creation.

Sonic Foundry's digital audio and video tools include the award-winning ACID, Sound Forge, Vegas, Audio, Vegas Video, VideoFactory, Stream Anywhere, SIREN Jukebox, Viscosity, and a variety of compatible music loop libraries and DirectX Audio Plug-Ins. For specific product descriptions, please reference the "products" section of the Sonic Foundry Web site at www.sonicfoundry.com.

Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division is the pre-eminent supplier of digitization, management, and delivery solutions for audio and video content owners. Serving as the link between content and customers, the Company provides proven, comprehensive processes that enable content delivery to new and emerging distribution channels. The five key components that make up these solutions include: Media Distribution Fulfillment, Enterprise Content Management, Turnkey Systems, Consulting Services, and Encoding.

Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for the Company's products, the Company's ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services, the effect of new competitors in the Company's market, integration of acquired businesses and other risk factors identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


Source: Sonic Foundry/Canopus Corp.
Web: www.sonicfoundry.com/www.justedit.com