Bridge freezes while previewing animation

I'm using a Mac, 16GB RAM, 200+GB free space. Bridge CC 2014
When I want to preview an animation in Bridge it freezes. I can select any folder, but selecting an animation will freeze Bridge. I can't actually quit Bridge, I have to Force Quit it and, interestingly, Finder doesn't show Bridge as "not responding".
In my Activity Monitor it shows CompressorJobController, CompressorTranscoder and dynamiclinkmediaserver as "Not Responding".
I've uninstalled Bridge, (with Adobe Cleaner), deleted the cache, reinstalled, did Disk repair permissions - still not working.

Thanks for the quick reply Rick. Yes, 4Gb is not a lot, but when I bought the machine I was not doing any video and it sure seemed like plenty in 2008. I probably should upgrade...
I did close down everything else, but the problem still exists. I can navigate to a thumbnail, but once I click on it and try to preview, the program freezes and I have to force quit.

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