From 359f937b73d71ffdef3b676e2f66191179e033aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: itsmattkc <itsmattkc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:41:10 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #656

---
 effects/fields/stringfield.cpp      | 3 ++-
 effects/internal/timecodeeffect.cpp | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/effects/fields/stringfield.cpp b/effects/fields/stringfield.cpp
index 55b59752d..30fa3c71e 100644
--- a/effects/fields/stringfield.cpp
+++ b/effects/fields/stringfield.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ StringField::StringField(EffectRow* parent, const QString& id, bool rich_text) :
   EffectField(parent, id, EFFECT_FIELD_STRING),
   rich_text_(rich_text)
 {
-
+  // Set default value to an empty string
+  SetValueAt(0, "");
 }
 
 QString StringField::GetStringAt(double timecode)
diff --git a/effects/internal/timecodeeffect.cpp b/effects/internal/timecodeeffect.cpp
index 43b195bc0..4de3e3497 100644
--- a/effects/internal/timecodeeffect.cpp
+++ b/effects/internal/timecodeeffect.cpp
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ TimecodeEffect::TimecodeEffect(Clip* c, const EffectMeta* em) :
   offset_y_val = new DoubleField(offset_row, "offsety");
 
   EffectRow* prepent_text_row = new EffectRow(this, tr("Prepend"));
-  prepend_text = new StringField(prepent_text_row, "prepend");
+  prepend_text = new StringField(prepent_text_row, "prepend", false);
   prepend_text->SetColumnSpan(2);
 }