Dan DiPaola is a seasoned entertainment professional who has spent his career on the cutting edge of technology delivering creative solutions for 25 years. Right out of college, he joined Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios where he spent five years pushing the early digital invasion of Hollywood. In 1979, he opened Compu-Casting, a computerized atmosphere and bit player casting agency through which he earned positions as assistant director on several films.

Since the 1980s, DiPaola has been a featured speaker at technology and entertainment conferences, always making technology accessible to the average user. A prime directive of his has been to bring the right technology to a production situation that saves time and money without jeopardizing the creative elements.

2004 CoFounder / Image Quality Enforcer
HD-Encoding.com Blu-ray and HD-DVD encoding for the entertainment industry. Clients include Walt Disney Pictures, NBC, Disney Interactive, Buena Vista Home Video. Specializing in the preparation and final encode of HD Trailers.

2001 Vice President Business Development for the Entertainment Industry
Sorenson Media, head up the design and supervision of their state-of-the-art digital video encoding facility in Burbank. Clients ranged from Warner Brothers to Disney.

1999 Managing Director of Emerging Technologies
Digital Domain, Pushing the envelope in streaming technologies. clients included General Motors. He was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Website Development Award for the proper balance of technology in conjunction with creative.

1995 Senior Director of Entertainment Technologies
Fractal Design’s Entertainment Technology Center, previewed numerous products for motion storyboarding, pre-visualization, matte painting and broadcast graphics.

1991 Senior Manager at Walt Disney Pictures and Television Desktop Graphics Lab
There he explored the use of the Macintosh in various aspects of film and television production. Designed and implemented automation of production workflow for all divisions of Studio.