Sonic Desktop Announces Co-Marketing Agreement with eZedia Inc.

Special Offer on SmartSound Movie Maestro through eZedia's Education Program

Sonic Desktop Announces Co-Marketing Agreement with eZedia Inc.
Special Offer on SmartSound Movie Maestro through eZedia's Education Program

NORTHRIDGE, Calf. June 24, 2002 - Sonic Desktop Software, the leader in soundtrack creation technology, today announced a co-marketing agreement with eZedia Inc., a leader in digital media software technology. SmartSound Movie Maestro will be offered through eZedia's Zoom-ed program, allowing educators to purchase Movie Maestro for a limited time at a special educational price. Movie Maestro will be included in eZedia's Zoom-ed Classroom Resource website and corporate website, e-newsletter and direct marketing communications. As well, the two companies will jointly distribute product literature and demonstration software.

"The eZediaMX product shares a common goal with our SmartSound family of software - to help visual media creators communicate with more creativity and impact. With eZedia multimedia authoring software and SmartSound soundtrack creation software, anyone can create great-sounding, dynamically rich multimedia presentations with little or no learning curve," said Kevin Klingler, president and CEO of Sonic Desktop. "By partnering with eZedia, we're helping to provide media educators with one of the most complete multimedia authoring solutions on the market."

"Movie Maestro is an ideal tool for students and educators to enhance the audio component of any multimedia project", added Stefan Embleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of eZedia Inc. "eZedia's Zoom-ed program not only makes our eZediaMX software more economical and accessible, but it is committed to providing useful resources, such as Movie Maestro. Our partnership with Sonic Desktop offers educators the most powerful video, image and sound experience available to their students in a very easy-to-learn and easy-to-use package."
About eZedia Inc.
eZediaMX revolutionizes cross-platform multimedia authoring and editing with a unique visual linking environment and intuitive interface. It combines superior media handling with innovative interactivity tools and easy-to-use logic elements that will unleash one's imagination and enhance their digital lifestyle. eZediaMX can be used to quickly and easily create digital portfolios, business presentations, multimedia slide shows, web videos, animations and interactive CD-ROM projects.

Utilizing the latest technologies from QuickTime, Java and OpenGL, eZediaMX provides advanced features such as movie and media masking, non-destructive video editing, animation, text to speech, sound mixing and fading and full control of VRs all without any programming or scripting. Its provides a powerful, yet intuitive tools allow users to combine and edit all media formats including video, graphics, animation, sound, MP3s, VRs and text.

Founded in 1994 by Stefan Embleton, eZedia Inc. has grown from a full-service interactive digital media development organization to a leader in digital media software technology. The company derives its name from the phrase "easy media" which underscores its corporate focus on the delivery of easy-to-use and easy-to-learn digital media authoring and development products. More information about eZedia Inc. is available on the Company's web site at www.ezedia.com.

About Sonic Desktop, Inc.
Sonic Desktop Software, The Soundtrack Company, is the developer and marketer of the SmartSound family of audio software products-the world leader in soundtrack creation technology for visual content creators. SmartSound technology is available for Windows 98 or newer and Macintosh OS 9.0 or newer. The products include the SmartSound For Multimedia, SmartSound Sonicfire Pro and SmartSound Movie Maestro soundtrack creation software and the Audio Palette, Sound Palette, The Edge and Movie Music series of music and sound effects add-on CDs. The company is headquartered in Northridge, California, and can be reached by phone at 818-718-9999, by fax at 818-718-9990 or via their website at www.smartsound.com.

(c) 2002 Sonic Desktop Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Movie Maestro, SmartSound, Sonicfire, The Soundtrack Company are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonic Desktop Software, Inc. eZedia, the eZedia logo, and eZediaMX are registered trademarks or trademarks of eZedia Inc. Other names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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