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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I don't do many slideshows, but I threw a quick test together in Imagination and exported it as Theora, and while I can't swear I saw exactly what you were seeing (but then, my test slideshow was a quick, thrown-together mess of a slideshow; quite possibly I didn't notice the stuttered playback because it only took me 15 seconds to throw it together), I think you should try this:
1. Open a terminal.
2. Where "myGreatSlideshow.ogv" is the slideshow in question:
ffmpeg -i /path/to/myGreatSlideshow.ogv -r 25 /path/to/myGreatSlide25fps.ogv
3. Import the new slideshow into kdenlive and see if that makes a difference.
Like I said, I couldn't really tell one way or the other, at least from my initial tests. I might try to do some frame counting later today and see if I can see what you are seeing. In the meantime, try the above ffmpeg fix and see what happens. Please do let me know!
I don't have access to a Canon FS200 but as far as I know, .mod files are just mpeg2 files. I've had good experiences with Ffmpeg and MLT and Mpeg2, so I would give it a go. I'd love to hear back if you find that it does or does not work.
I have found that most of the cameras are very particular about how you get the files from the media to the computer. So my advice is to take the entire directory structure from the camera when moving your files to the computer. Then open up Kdenlive and either use Add Clips to try to add one of the video files to the project, or failing that, try using File > Transcode and get the clip into an uncompressed .mkv file (I use huffYUV+PCM with really good results).
Let me know how it goes!