I've run Storyline on my iMac with Parallels. It has worked really well for me. The only downside I have seen is the "nudge" function doesn't work easily. You have to make some adjustments to make it work.
I run Storyline on my Mac at home and on a Windows machine at work. Since Storyline only runs on Windows (a Mac native version would be great, hint hint Articulate Staff) you need to install windows on your Mac. I've built courses on at work saved them to dropbox and then opened it up on my home machine for additional work (and vice versa) with no problems.
Thanks, man! Super helpful. I am glad to see that you have actually made it work going both ways. My company gave me this 20lb, "workstation" Windows laptop, and I am trying desperately shed it. Plus, designing on a Mac has its benefits too for me.
Hi, Edward -- I see that you are getting lots of great assistance here! Personally, I use VMware Fusion on my Mac and I have not encountered any issues thus far.
Also, in case you wanted to take a look at some threads on a similar topic, I thought I would stop in to share the following:
Hi Christie: Yep! This is all very helpful. We are a small lot of Mac users, but if everything works with minor mods, I sure would like the option! Cheers!
I've been using Storyline on my Mac via VMware, and its doing an alright job. Its definitely a lot faster on a PC, but its getting the job done without having to leave my machine. It gets bogged down from time to time, but it migh tbe more a case of what i'm running on my mac side (often AI, AE, PS, DW, Skype, mail, calendar etc) thats causing there to be a ram battle.
Hey Sarah: Thanks for keeping the dialog alive! Sure - if you have three browsers open plus, IM, Skype, FB, yadda, yadda, you just MAY be ticking your CPU a wee bit. Haha.
I'm running Parallels on an imac with 16GB memory devoted to it (machine is 3.2ghz processor & 24GB memory).
I run into problems with very complex builds. Storyline somtimes pops up with a save error, sayings there is no space to save the file no matter where I try to save it. Also, sometimes publish doesn't work. Closing the module & re-starting windows fixes the issue. It's intermittent. I'm used to saving regularly these days so doesn't cause too many problems. But there does seem to be a very inefficient use of memory by Parallels.
Keep your courses short & simple, and you'll have no worries.
What constitutes a "complex build"? A few members of our support team run on Macs as well using Parallels or VMWAre - so we'd be happy to give it a test of how it behaves. You'll also want to ensure that you're following along with the guidelines Christie previously shared in terms of working locally on the Mac side and disabling the shared profile.
I would give some memory back to the iMac, being a 32bit Application there is no advantage to windows having more than 4Gb. I run on an iMac with 32Gb or fan but only ever give 4Gb to any VM.
Every course I have ever built has been on a Mac, a reinstallation of windows or Storyline may help.
Phil, thanks for the suggestion- was not aware of that so I'll try reducing the amount of memory. However, the issue seems to be in Windows, not the mac. I can run photoshop & illustrator with the VM open without issue.
I run into problems when courses have lots of images, animations, film, vo, layers, triggers & variables. Unfortunately the course that I'm currently having problems with is NDA'd, so cannot share. The screenshot was literally taken just now. The only instals I have on Windows are SL2, Chrome & AVG.
I have disabled the shared drive in the past, but adds lots of dev time due to receiving a lot of files via a shared server. I might try sharing via Google Docs & see how that works out, though.
I enable sharing, SL2 is reliant on the C: drive so you could look at expanding the space. You could also run disk cleanup. I switched to Windows 10 as my install of windows 7 was bloated at 70Gb and my windows 10 install is 22Gb
I don't run any antivirus software on windows side apart from Windows defender. I did have issues with a windows 7 install that would only publish and preview every now and again and i would need to restart regularly. Which version of Parallels are you using?
Ah, I'd never realised you could increase the VM hard drive space...! I'm forever deleting all of my published files to keep the space free. Running Parallels 8.
Also, Windows 10 sounds like a sensible investment too. Cheers.
You may still be able to get Windows 10 as a part of the free update they were offering - so definitely look into that further! At the very least you could have both and run two VMs as you get use to Windows 10 (I'm still on Windows 8.1 myself and don't want to switch!)
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Hi Ed!
Hopefully some community members will be able to chime in and provide you with some insight. I did want to pop in and share our documentation.
Hi Leslie!
Thank you very much. ☺
Yeah, probably out there are some Mac users in the community that are running this way.
I am on a Windows at work, but have a speedy Mac Book Pro at home – and – I like designing on one too!
Best,
Ed
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I understand Edward :) Speedy is better for sure!
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I've run Storyline on my iMac with Parallels. It has worked really well for me. The only downside I have seen is the "nudge" function doesn't work easily. You have to make some adjustments to make it work.
Cool. Thanks Cary. Have you opened the Mac version on a Windows machine, and vice-versa, then? Very curious about this work-flow.
I run Storyline on my Mac at home and on a Windows machine at work. Since Storyline only runs on Windows (a Mac native version would be great, hint hint Articulate Staff) you need to install windows on your Mac. I've built courses on at work saved them to dropbox and then opened it up on my home machine for additional work (and vice versa) with no problems.
Thanks, man! Super helpful. I am glad to see that you have actually made it work going both ways. My company gave me this 20lb, "workstation" Windows laptop, and I am trying desperately shed it. Plus, designing on a Mac has its benefits too for me.
Hi, Edward -- I see that you are getting lots of great assistance here! Personally, I use VMware Fusion on my Mac and I have not encountered any issues thus far.
Also, in case you wanted to take a look at some threads on a similar topic, I thought I would stop in to share the following:
Experiences with Storyline on Mac via Parallels
Articulate Storyline 2 with Mac
Running Storyline 2 on a Mac
You may also find this article, How to Use Articulate Storyline on a Mac (with Videos!), helpful as well! :)
Hi Christie: Yep! This is all very helpful. We are a small lot of Mac users, but if everything works with minor mods, I sure would like the option! Cheers!
I've been using Storyline on my Mac via VMware, and its doing an alright job. Its definitely a lot faster on a PC, but its getting the job done without having to leave my machine. It gets bogged down from time to time, but it migh tbe more a case of what i'm running on my mac side (often AI, AE, PS, DW, Skype, mail, calendar etc) thats causing there to be a ram battle.
Hey Sarah: Thanks for keeping the dialog alive! Sure - if you have three browsers open plus, IM, Skype, FB, yadda, yadda, you just MAY be ticking your CPU a wee bit. Haha.
I'm running Parallels on an imac with 16GB memory devoted to it (machine is 3.2ghz processor & 24GB memory).
I run into problems with very complex builds. Storyline somtimes pops up with a save error, sayings there is no space to save the file no matter where I try to save it. Also, sometimes publish doesn't work. Closing the module & re-starting windows fixes the issue. It's intermittent. I'm used to saving regularly these days so doesn't cause too many problems. But there does seem to be a very inefficient use of memory by Parallels.
Keep your courses short & simple, and you'll have no worries.
Hi Matthew,
What constitutes a "complex build"? A few members of our support team run on Macs as well using Parallels or VMWAre - so we'd be happy to give it a test of how it behaves. You'll also want to ensure that you're following along with the guidelines Christie previously shared in terms of working locally on the Mac side and disabling the shared profile.
I would give some memory back to the iMac, being a 32bit Application there is no advantage to windows having more than 4Gb. I run on an iMac with 32Gb or fan but only ever give 4Gb to any VM.
Every course I have ever built has been on a Mac, a reinstallation of windows or Storyline may help.
Phil, thanks for the suggestion- was not aware of that so I'll try reducing the amount of memory. However, the issue seems to be in Windows, not the mac. I can run photoshop & illustrator with the VM open without issue.
I run into problems when courses have lots of images, animations, film, vo, layers, triggers & variables. Unfortunately the course that I'm currently having problems with is NDA'd, so cannot share. The screenshot was literally taken just now. The only instals I have on Windows are SL2, Chrome & AVG.
I have disabled the shared drive in the past, but adds lots of dev time due to receiving a lot of files via a shared server. I might try sharing via Google Docs & see how that works out, though.
I enable sharing, SL2 is reliant on the C: drive so you could look at expanding the space. You could also run disk cleanup. I switched to Windows 10 as my install of windows 7 was bloated at 70Gb and my windows 10 install is 22Gb
I don't run any antivirus software on windows side apart from Windows defender. I did have issues with a windows 7 install that would only publish and preview every now and again and i would need to restart regularly. Which version of Parallels are you using?
Ah, I'd never realised you could increase the VM hard drive space...! I'm forever deleting all of my published files to keep the space free. Running Parallels 8.
Also, Windows 10 sounds like a sensible investment too. Cheers.
Matthew,
You may still be able to get Windows 10 as a part of the free update they were offering - so definitely look into that further! At the very least you could have both and run two VMs as you get use to Windows 10 (I'm still on Windows 8.1 myself and don't want to switch!)
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