Project Boggs Down

Here is my project. It's very slow to play even after a Render, changing quality from Full to Third or Quarter. I even boosted the Memory and Cache to 95%. I suspect I need to turn off some of the camera behaviors but then it changes the look of the project which prevents me from knowing where things truly are in 3D space.
How can I speed up the playback on this?
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I need your help big time on this one. Project due tomorrow.
Best,
Jesse

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First big Motion project, no doubt.
Scale back your expectations, figure out how to prerender some of your layers as movies and reimport them, you've probably got too many lights.
If your GPU isn't on Motion's Love List, going to 3d immediately pushes processing up by a geometric factor, four to nine times as long to process every frame. If, as suggested, your still images are large, they must be shuttled in and out of RAM and every pixels scaled and then filtered. Huge waste of time.
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