The BioClip is a concise multimedia document about a biological topic which mixes text, music, sound, video and animations ideally in an interactive manner to be diffused via the Internet.

Of course, there are many ways to create a bioclip and we can not go into technical details of each software but you can have a short look at their interface. Two of the softwares commonly used might be familiar to most of you:

Photoshop
is an image editing software that allows you to prepare your microscopic images, photos etc. You can use this software to improve your image quality (contrast, resolution, image size...).

Powerpoint
which is a simple tool to create an independent slide show integrating text, movies, images, sound… The disadvantage of this software is that the resulting slideshow file is very big and not really adapted to be diffused on the web.

Actually, each time you prepare an oral presentation most of the preparative work is already done which consists in a : Concept (idea of the story you want to tell) Visuals (your slides) Script (what you are going to say) Story board (your slide show).
Now, to produce a Bioclip out of this classical slide you will use other software packages such as:

Audacity
to record and edit sound

Adobe Premiere or After Effects
to edit and compose video sequences

Macromedia Flash
to create interactive animations for the internet

Click on the software names to see the interfaces in a pop-up visual.