Why Does the Movie I’m Editing Stop Playing When I Go to Type Some Personal Notes in Textedit On Mac

[WarmLight42]

Why does the movie I’m editing and playing stop playing when i go to type some personal notes in TextEdit on Mac? I’d rather have it keep playing while I make notes about it. If you know a way to watch the movie I'm editing while making notes about it in a different screen on my apple computer desktop, please share?

Thanks,

Lee

[Peru Bob]

What are your computer specs?

[WarmLight42]

I have an iMac Apple Computer with the latest updated software. 8 GB RAM. Not sure what else to say about that. anything specific?

[Peru Bob]

What processor?

Operating system?

Video card?

How many hard drives, what kind, how full, what size, and what is on each?

[Bill Sprague]

Your computer may be needing to swap RAM with disk because you've got more going on than the RAM can handle. 

[WarmLight42]

Sounds complicated. Isn't there some setting that I can just change in Premiere Elements?

[Peru Bob]

No.  It is likely that you just don't have enough RAM to multitask.

[WarmLight42]

Thanks. Guess I will be buying 8 more Gigs of Ram. Maybe that will help? Yes, Thanks. Best

[Ann Bens]

Cannot reproduce your issue on the mac.

What OS are you using.

[WarmLight42]

What processor? 3.2GHz Intel Core i3

Operating system?macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

Video card? ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB

How many hard drives , what kind, 1, SATA Internal Physical Volume • Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

how full what size, 919.28 of 999.35,  

and what is on each? DOCUMENTS, SYSTEM, ios files

[Peru Bob · Accepted solution]

That is an underpowered processor for Premiere Elements and your hard drive doesn't have enough free space on it.

[WarmLight42]

Sounds like I need to clear out some space and add more RAM. That's all I can do now.

Thanks for your help.