Exhibit 99.1

news release                                                           SONIC(TM)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                             FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
June 19, 2001                                     Paul Lefebvre, Sonic Solutions
                                           415.893.8000 phone . 415.893.8008 fax
NASDAQ:SNIC                                       paul_lefebvre@sonic.com  email
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                   Sonic Announces Settlement of Litigation

Marin County, California (June 19, 2001) - Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC] today
made the following announcement:

The Parties to the Sonic Solutions v. Spruce Technologies and Kirk Paulsen
lawsuit have reached an agreement over their dispute regarding the alleged
similarity between user interfaces. The terms of the settlement are
confidential.


About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)

Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading
manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing. Sonic DVDit!(TM)
(http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at
videographers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video
editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Sonic MyDVD(TM)
(http://www.mydvd.sonic.com) is the first DVD authoring application for
consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." Sonic DVD Creator(R),
Sonic Scenarist(R), Sonic ReelDVD(R) and Sonic DVD Fusion(R) are the most
widely-used systems for professional DVD publishing, and are installed worldwide
at major studios, post production facilities and in corporate marketing
departments. SonicStudio(R) HD is the leading digital workstation for preparing
audio for release on CD and is the first for creating content for the new
DVD-Audio format. Sonic is a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the
standards-setting body for the DVD format.


(C) 2001 Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, cDVD, eDVD, MyDVD, DVDit!, and
SonicStudio HD are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. Sonic DVD Creator, Sonic DVD
Fusion, Scenarist, ReelDVD and SonicStudio are registered trademarks of Sonic
Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective
owners. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change
without notice.