Avoid periodic flicker/drag during slideshow with QPropertyAnimation

I have come across a problem/bug in QPropertyAnimation, QPropertyAnimation produce periodic flicker/drag effect during animation of longer duration of about 1 second or two. For small duration animation (about 500 ms or less) the QPropertyAnimation produce smooth animation without that specific flicker/drag effect. That flicker/drag like effect appears round about every 500ms. And i need to come across some solution very quickly. I have attached the minimal compilable example reproducing the problem. Please have a look and help.
(The code was originally posted by wysota in response of the question by some other user on the forum for his own specific kind of problem)

I am using Qt5.5 in Windows10, Core i5 Laptop.

Code:

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#include <QCoreApplication>
#include <QWidget>
#include <QVBoxLayout>
#include <QPushButton>
#include <QLabel>
#include <QPropertyAnimation>
#include <QApplication>
 
 
class Widget : public QWidget {
  Q_OBJECT
public:
  Widget(QWidget *parent = 0) : QWidget(parent) {
    QVBoxLayout *l = new QVBoxLayout(this);
    placeholder = new QWidget;
    placeholder->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding, QSizePolicy::Expanding);
    l->addWidget(placeholder);
    QPushButton *b = new QPushButton;
    l->addWidget(b);
    b->setText("click");
    connect(b, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(nextPage()));
    current = 0;
  }
public slots:
  void nextPage() {
    QWidget *newPage = new QLabel("page");
    newPage->setAutoFillBackground(true);
    QStringList c = QColor::colorNames();
    QPalette p = newPage->palette();
    p.setColor(QPalette::Window, QColor(c.at(qrand() % c.size())));
    newPage->setPalette(p);
    newPage->setParent(placeholder);
    QPropertyAnimation *anim = new QPropertyAnimation(newPage, "geometry", newPage);
    QRect start = placeholder->rect();
    start.setTopLeft(start.topRight());
    newPage->setGeometry(start);
    anim->setStartValue(start);
    anim->setEndValue(placeholder->rect());
    anim->setDuration(4000);
    anim->start();
 
    if(current) {
      QPropertyAnimation *anim = new QPropertyAnimation(current, "geometry", current);
      anim->setStartValue(placeholder->rect());
      QRect r = placeholder->rect();
      r.translate(-r.width(), 0);
      anim->setEndValue(r);
      anim->setDuration(4000);
      connect(anim, SIGNAL(finished()), current, SLOT(deleteLater()));
      anim->start();
    }
 
    current = newPage;
    current->show();
  }
private:
  QWidget *placeholder;
  QWidget *current;
};
 
#include "main.moc"
 
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  Widget w;
  w.show();
  return app.exec();
}

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