creating a contact sheet in bridge takes too long.

[nikitas57772621]

creating a contact sheet in bridge takes too long. After more than an hour, the progress is the same. 

I have about 1k shots that I want to export as a contact sheet. 

I tried to reduce the quality in the export setting, but it works only with the lowest resolution, which is unacceptable to me. 

I am using MacBook pro M1