Two days ago, I need to render downconvert from 1080-30p to DVD Widescreen 25p. Decide try this simple task in VP14.

First I try with Smart Resample ON - Render time 09m43s for 1m45s duration😱..

Next, I try right click on the 30p media, plan to disable resample, but I went to Properties, and found something else: 'Conform to Frame Rate' button to slower the video frame rate speed to 25p. (0.833)
*Just a photomontage clip, so no problem with speed.

Render time is now 2m06s for 2m05s duration 👍

Very Nice feature of 'Conform Frame Rate' to those who have trouble calculating this !