New in Storyline 360: 64-bit App

Hi Jessica - there isn't much more in formation to be seen, other than their web page for it: https://access.articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-360-64-bit-App?_ga=2.86255896.1465383251.1710360852-1345355692.1710260938

I am guessing - but feel pretty certain - that this has no effect on the runtime/published files that end users see, and that it is only for a potentially faster developer experience.

thanks for taking the time to respond Scott, would be interested to know what differences you pointed out and what they say if you are willing to share

so many tens of thousands of dollars invested in hardware, GPU's, dedicated PC's and for the better part of decade, i could never get a real boost in productivity.  The good news is that 64 bit version that's finally here seems to have finally done it.  The bad news is that many of us had to suffer for a long time with very little, if almost no shame or remorse on the part of Articulate "we don't have that" was the only response FOR YEARS AND YEARS when asked why other programs on the market -- pretty much anything, had a 64 bit version.

Just so there's no confusion -- it's not the money spent on hardware that was the issue, it's the time required for storyline to perform a 32 bit task.  Now (and that's the good news) in many cases, the 64 bit version reduces the time required by 70 to 90%).

So when I think back about the last ten years and the number of work hours in a year and the potential savings of time that could've been, it's staggering.  Granted, I wasn't compiling/publishing storyline files all that time (where the real time-savings is), but still.  The part that rubbed me the wrong way the most was the hubris exhibited by Articulate and their giant show-booths every time I'd talk to someone from articulate at a trade show about "hey any plans to have a 64 bit Storyline?" was "no" for many years, then "some users have asked for that" to "we're thinking about doing that some time down the future, we'll take your suggestion..."

It surprised the heck out of me when it finally arrived in Beta not long ago.  I'll take it and eventually get over the irritation as long as Articulate keeps working on a computer based (rather than cloud based) platform.  I'm at a hotel in SC right now trying to work on a 5 Mbs internet connection.  If that.

I think I'd quit my job rather than use Captivate again.

I love the text to speech option in SL x64, as we do mostly videos. Is that feature here to stay without any additional cost to me? I went to the AI round table this week and they shared some additional new AI features that will come out next month, but stated that the AI features would cost extra. I'm just trying to get an idea about how much so I can request it on our budget.

I'm over the moon thrilled with the release of the Storyline 360 64bit app and glad to hear it's no longer in beta. As I run the update, I see that there is now only one Storyline 360 app... so do I need to remove the 64bit beta I have installed? I assume the only version of Storyline 360 is now just the 64bit. Thanks for any clarification.

Thank you for the reply. I had previously installed the 64-bit Beta. When I installed the latest update (with Storyline 360 64-bit no longer in Beta) I expected that it would default to the new update. I had previously set Storyline 360 64-bit Beta as the default so that all files opened in 64-bit Beta. Since the icons were identical and now the resulting applications both said Storyline 360 64-bit I had no way knowing if I was seeing the new update or the Beta... so I went in to Add Remove Programs and the Beta was still installed. I uninstalled it and both the Beta and the update were uninstalled. I then installed the update again and everything is great. Thanks.

Great news, Russ! Glad to hear that re-installing did the trick! 

If any other questions come up in the future, feel free to reach out. 

Hope that you have a great day!