Version 2.7.4, when running a conversion task, is affecting the performance...
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This never used to be a problem with older versions. What changed suddenly?
Are you using hardware acceleration? If so have you changed your settings like I did using video filters that only run in the CPU. That really made ffmpeg more CPU hungry on my machine.
It could also be the new ffmpeg version 5.0. I cannot run it at all as all my conversions fail so it obviously doesn't like my settings but I like my quality too much to change them for a new version of ffmpeg.
The first thing I would do is monitor current conversion/conversions and note the CPU usage in the Task Manager and then simply drop back to using the last version of ffmpeg 4.4.1 in the newer version of Batch and then run the same conversions and compare the resources needed.
Nothing has changed in encoding process but ffmpeg.exe version. If performance is not as you expect you can replace it with previous one and see the results.