ITunes converting videos at only around 300% CPU?

Hello all,
I'm converting a ton of videos in iTunes so that I can watch them on my iPod and it's taking forever (1 video every 45 mins or so). I have an iMac quad-core i7 @ 2.8 GHz and it's only using 300% (out of a possible 800) to do the conversion. Does anybody happen to know why there is this limitation in iTunes? Is there a way to have it use 800% (or max possible) instead?
Thanks!

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