Heights Man Expands Studio Business to the Boulevard

Hasbrouck Heights' Peter Gallo is living proof that one can turn one's interest and hobby into a successful business.

Gallo, owner of Envision Video Services, started the business eight years ago which he ran out of his own home office in Heights. Now he's expanding the business, opening up a studio right on the Boulevard in his home town.

Envision Video Services held its grand opening and ribbon cutting this Thursday at its new location at 224 Boulevard.

Gallo was a computer network engineer for many years until his company downsized and he found himself having to think about what his next steps would be. He decided to turn his hobby and passion for video making into his own business.

Shortly after he got Envision Video Services started he joined up with Home Video Studio which is an international franchise which provides a lot of the back end with support, training and advice.

Over the years his studio has won several awards for their work. The business continuously grew through word of mouth and repeat customers which led Gallo to realize it was time to move out of the home office into a bigger facility. 

He says he wanted to keep the business in Hasbrouck Heights as it's his home base and he wanted to be part of the Boulevard. As luck would have it the 224 Boulevard location opened up and he jumped at the opportunity.

The location provides ample space for all the projects Envision takes on including filming right in the studio. The back room is all set up complete with a green screen for in-house filming.

Gallo says a large part of what Envision does is transfer old movies from reel to reel film to DVD or 8 millimeter and VHS onto DVDs.

He's found it's become quite a popular thing, especially around Christmas time, to have old videos transferred to DVD. He says VHS tapes were never meant to last much longer than 15 maybe 20 years. "They were designed for taking down memories but not preserving them," said Gallo. Many people don't even own VCRs anymore, he added.

Envision also films corporate events, sporting events such as golf outings, graduations and promo videos for company websites. The only thing they don't do is weddings as it's a very different niche, says Gallo.

He's worked on many interesting projects including filming someone doing sign language to be added to a video game for instructional purposes to interviewing veterans for the purpose of documenting their memories.

Gallo already is an active member of the Heights business community and serves as treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Mahwah Chamber of Commerce.