About Joseph Nilo

I’ve spent more than 25 years making videos, recording audio, grading footage, and building the tools that help all of that work move a little more smoothly.

I came up through recording studios and edit rooms

I started as a musician and office manager at a commercial recording studio in the 1990s. That job pulled me into audio engineering, editing, and the early days of producing media on a Mac.

From there I moved into commercial video production, mostly on the post-production side. I edited in Final Cut Pro, recorded voiceovers for commercials and web videos, and started podcasting when that still required explaining what a podcast was.

Then I helped start HiLo Media

My longtime collaborator Chuck and I turned our side projects into HiLo Media. We’ve made app demos, tutorials, animations, branded videos, culinary content, and plenty of projects that didn’t fit neatly into one category.

Along the way, we produced a travel and cooking series for PBS and traveled across the U.S. and Canada making stories about farmers and vendors for Whole Foods Market. That range is also what led me deeper into color grading and finishing.

These days, the work overlaps in useful ways

I still produce and finish video, record voiceover, and make tutorial and marketing content for companies such as FxFactory.

I also build Django and Wagtail sites, automations, and publishing tools. It may look like a different lane, but to me it’s the same kind of work: understand the problem, make something useful, and leave the workflow better than I found it.