QT Pro nor iSquint will export using both CPUs - MacBook Pro

Hello!
I've got a few videos (of various codecs) that I want to export for my iPod, at the high-res 640x480 level. Because I want more control over export settings than iTunes gives, I usually export with Quicktime Pro, or sometimes iSquint, depending on the quality I want and the codecs used.
Exporting takes a lot of time - as it does on any computer. Unfortunately, both Quicktime and iSquint seem to refuse to export using both CPU cores in my 2.2 Ghz MacBook Pro. They both suck down the entire power of one core, but the other sits idle. This greatly increases the export time, which is annoying when I've got a lot of videos to convert.
Oddly enough, when I tried exporting said source movies to a DVD via iDVD, it used both cores. In other words, QT is actually capable of using 2 cores to export videos in iDVD, but not via QT Pro itself - very very odd.
Is this a "feature" of the program - that is, QT Pro does not support dual-core encoding except through other programs - or some bug? Since iSquint does the same thing, I'm fairly sure the problem does not actually lie with Quicktime as iSquint uses the FFmpeg codecs to convert videos.
Any ideas what the problem is, and how to work around it? If it's a bug in the software, I can reinstall said application.
-Dan

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