Week 15

Since last Tuesday, we met with our advisor Professor Tao (on Thursday) and provided him an update on our status. We also gave him a demo of the features we worked on. By that point I had already pushed my final coding changes to our team's repository.

This week I worked on our presentation. I created our initial slides and a script based on our teams presentation outline. I recorded myself narrating over all the slides. I also recorded my interactions as a user with our project's main features so it can be included as our demo in our presentation. I used video editing software to put several clips together and trimmed down the time to fit the requirement as close as possible.

It was fun working on video editing. I used iMovie which comes free with Macs. I'm still fairly new to it. For past presentations (for other courses) I would narrate over slides in one shot and then do a demo live in the same recording. I wish I had known how much easier the process can be with a bit of video editing.

Currently I don't see any challenges in the project's development. The draft video is done and it should be pretty straight forward to make modifications as needed. 

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