Slideshow text preceeded by "nil"

In Slideshow in v2.4, the text for the caption at the bottom of the image is always preceeded with "nil". This is the case no matter what the source of the caption is (e.g. caption, title, equipment, date, filename, etc.).
For example, if the metdata associated with an image has no value in the Caption field, the text in the Slideshow displays "nil". If the Title metadata contains "_MG_8134", the Slideshow displays "nil_MG_8134".
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks, Lars

I don't know how the "nil" got there, but I just deleted the text overlay and created a new one. All is OK.

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