Batch render After effect in backgroud task on OS X

Hi
Is there a possibility to do batch render with after effect 7 in background task with command line in the terminal?
i have another problem, the batch render of AFX is very slow on my Quad G5 (2go ram). After effect only use 10 to 40 % of the CPU, can i do somethink to accelerate it?
Thank you for all.
sorry for my bad english
Vincent

"Is there a possibility to do batch render with after effect 7 in background task with command line in the terminal?"
I haven't done a ton of AE rendering w/ Qmaster, but it looks as if it only supports version 6.5.
"After effect only use 10 to 40 % of the CPU, can i do something to accelerate it?"
Well, not dong anything else and leaving AE as the front most application is a good place to start. CPU intensive apps often throttle back their usage when the machine is "not idle" so that you can have some CPU cycles to do other stuff with...
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