This document summarizes a study analyzing the hydrodynamic damping of collective motion in a densely packed, quasi-two-dimensional colloidal particle suspension using video microscopy. The system consists of densely packed, soft, deformable particles sandwiched between coverslips that are tracked at 1000 frames per second. By analyzing the particle displacements over time for different normal modes, the researchers are able to determine damping parameters like the friction coefficient, which measures hydrodynamic interactions between the particles. They find that unlike a similar prior study, their measured friction coefficient does not appear to vanish as expected.