MADISON, Wis.--Sonic Foundry, Inc. today announced its support of the Intel Itanium processor and Windows 2000 NT 64-bit operating system for future versions of its Vegas Video editing software platform.

With the addition of Intel's latest technologies, Sonic Foundry is able to bridge the gap for its customers from low-bandwidth to high-bandwidth digital video solutions. The new Intel Itanium processor will provide the processing power and technologies needed to support a software-only solution for high-end broadcast capabilities, while decreasing the related costs of a hardware and software editing combination. Intel's Itanium processor will provide Vegas Video with increased speed and performance, providing digital video editors with a more real world, broadcast experience.

"Intel's Itanium processor will provide Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video systems with increased power and functionality. Additionally, the Itanium processor will enable software-only solutions that provide users with a highly scalable platform for broadcast-quality editing," stated John C. Thomas, marketing manager, Intel Digital Media Solutions Division.

"Vegas Video users will to benefit from Intel's Itanium processor and Windows 2000 64-bit OS," stated Curtis Palmer, co-founder and chief technical officer for Sonic Foundry. "This new relationship helps us bridge the gap for our customers from low-bandwidth to high-bandwidth, broadcast quality offerings with a much more cost effective solution for their digital editing needs."

About the Intel Itanium Processor

The Intel Itanium Processor is the first in a family of IA-64 processors from Intel and is generally recognized as the most significant new development in Intel microprocessor architecture since the 386 processor was introduced in 1985. Intel's Itanium processor will complement today's Pentium III processor and Pentium Xeon 32-bit processor families with new features for high-end scalability, reliability, availability and large memory addressability. It allows Intel to provide solutions at the highest levels of computing to enable powerful servers and high-performance workstations to address the increasing demands that the Internet economy places on e-Businesses. More information on the Intel Itanium processor is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.

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 compete 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 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, Windows Media Technologies, QuickTime, MP3, and other popular formats.

About Sonic Foundry

Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is a leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems. Its award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications including audio, video and film post-production, broadcast production, and digital content creation. The Company's products and services offer media consumers the ability to create and capture media, edit the content, and deliver the information via fixed media channels or electronic distribution.

Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division is the premier facilitator for managing and digitizing media for the entertainment industry. Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division offers content owners proven and comprehensive solutions to manage and deliver their content to new and emerging distribution channels.

For additional information on Sonic Foundry, Inc., please visit www.sonicfoundry.com

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