Can iMovie 11 use quad core?

Does anyone know, if iMovie 11 can make use of all of the 4 cores on the new Macbook Pro I7 processor? I am thinking of buying either the quad core, or the dual core Macbook Pro for iMovie related work.
I asked this at the Apple store, but they were not sure.
Thank you.

I am using a MacPro (3/2014) with 6 cores and 16GB of RAM.
Encoding a 58 minute video in SD is estimated to take 1 hr 10 minutes.
While the CPU monitor shows the "ProTranscoderToolsb" running at 460% and I'Movie at 58%, it is not clear to me whether this means that the I'Movie is using multiple cores (i.e. 5 of my 6 cores) and is multi-threaded.
Does anyone have an answer for this.
I was surprised that this render would take this long as I upgraded my old MacPro (2008 1st generation but with 4 cores) precisely for the additional rendering power.
My impression is like some others, that if I'Movie is using multi-threading, it is not using it very efficiently. Apple needs to address this on all of its products. It is ironic that Adobe (Photoshop 6 and CC which rip) appear to use the new MacPro's power more effectively than Apple software products.

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