Thursday (Progress Report Due)

Today was the day our progress report was due so there's not much that i am going to write for this day sorry guys!

Today was an interesting day. The day started off with Cathy and me going and talking to Dennis and telling him I would not return to work with the MY NASA DATA program. He did not seem mad but I still felt a little bad about the whole situation because I know that they had no intentions of “scaring me away”. After, we headed over to the NIA building. Right off the bat Jon and I started working. I spent the entire morning looking up tutorials on YouTube and finding out how to use the Pinnacle Studio software. Right in the middle of it all we went downstairs so that we could get our key fobs. We got to sit and sign a bunch of papers but now we have really cool keys that let us into most of the parts of the buildings. I did not know that the program came with a green screen before I watch the tutorials. Once I found out, I showed john and we decided to play around with the video and use the software. We created the “Harry Potter invisibility cloak” and showed it to Cathy and Joe. That took up most of the morning and then we went to lunch. Once we got back from lunch we were given our new video camera. Jon and I took some time to look at the camera and everything that came with it. We made sure that we had everything we needed and we decided to play around with the camera and its settings for a bit. We recorded more to do another “invisibility cloak” video. We recorded everything and then we realized that we didn’t have to correct cord to upload the video to my computer. We took a long time trying to put the video on the Mac laptop and then trying to move it to my computer. Then after awhile we asked Sharon if she had the fire-wire cord for a PC. She had the cord of course and we had spent all that time trying to transfer it back and forth to the different computers for nothing. I work with the video for a bit but it never actually worked. The video files wouldn’t merge correctly and it got very frustrating. It was almost time to go so Jon and I started to pack up everything and we cleaned up our work areas. Cathy picked us up at 3:45.