AE CC not using 4 CPU cores

I have Win8 Pro 64-bit version and AE CC 64-bit, RAM is 16GB. Processor is Intel i5 2500k, 4 cores.
And in my task manager I see AE is using only 2 cpu cores, why isn't it using all 4 of them for rendering?

See this to understand how CPUs are used by After Effects:
https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/optimizing-cpus
You won't always see all of your CPUs used at 100%. There are a lot of other components to rendering, and the CPU is often not the bottleneck.
See this page for resources about making After Effects work faster: http://adobe.ly/eV2zE7
See this page for information about hardware for After Effects: http://adobe.ly/pRYOuk

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