Premiere Pro SLOW and laggy (with very simple project!)

Hi all,
So, I'm literally cutting together an animatic of jpeg images. And using very simple animation to animate them.
My timeline essentially is jpeg images, music, sound effects, etc. Using Macbook Pro Retina 13 Inch. 2013.
I've gotten very laggy performance across the board. And I can't even view jpegs with limited animation in real time. Have to render everything.
Attaching my system info below via screenshots. When I tried exporting I sent it to encoder and took a screenshot of the CPU usage.
At some point when I tried to render I would get errors (see attachments).
Any idea what this is about?

What size are your jpegs? Very large still images don't perform well in video applications. Try not to make them a lot bigger than the resolution of your timeline.
Also, make sure they are RGB, not CMYK.
If these things don't make sense to you, let us know and me or someone else will help you optimize your stills for video.

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Overall bit rate
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