Image Processor freezes, ignore video files?

I am trying to use the Image Processor to create a copy of my photo directory but sized much smaller and lower quality. Like a super shrunk backup, basically.
It is doing exactly what I want, but it keeps freezing regularly. It will do a few dozen photos then freeze for a minute or two. At this rate it would take hours just for the paused part, not even counting when it's working. I get a "loading" cursor but otherwise the program is unresponsive.
I have tried it set at 4 and 7 GB of ram. I have plenty of scratch disc space. My computer seems perfectly capable of handling it, it's an i7 4770. I've tried a few times, but it keeps doing it.
Is there anything to do about this?
Edit:
I think it's from hitting video files and those are just taking a long time. Of course I have no use converting a video to a jpg, is there some way to ignore certain file types?

I'm having trouble with bridge, it crashes whenever I try to navigate to my second hard drive. However the Tools>Photoshop>Image Processor option seems to just open the same dialog anyway.
I'm using photoshop cc on windows 7 pro 64
Never mind it's working now but it doesn't really help because this way I can only deal with one directory at a time. Having lots of directories is whats already making it so that I can't just move the video files.

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