So now I've made 4 items in fcpx...

...and that certainly doesn't make me a specialist .
Thanks to the Lynda.com tutorials I'm quite confident about most basics (FCP7 users should checkout their 'from 7 to x' tutorial, it's good). However, I've encountered several things I'd like to share and maybe you guys can help me out with some of them.
First of all, I was appalled by the numerous crashes.
My last edit, for example, was a 7 minute video that was certainly not very complicated. Just lots of clips and some music, and a modest amount of filters. I've had at least 4 completely dead experiences. Since there's no Save function, in one of them I lost a considerable amount of work. After that, every time when I did something that involved a lot of effort, I wanted to save but coulnd't. PLEASE bring the Save function back so that we can at least actively preserve our work!? (Or did I miss a menu option?)
Some other things that I wondered about:
One of the things I used frequently in FCS is dragging filter settings from one clip to another, so for example if I made a nice vignette, I would drag and drop the settings of the filter onto another clip. From the Info tab I'm not allowed to drag. How do I do this?
Why can't I put transitions on text effects, only on the primary storyline?
What's the thing with drop zones? I can't get templates with multiple dropzones to work properly. The dropzones just do not show up in the info tab, it only works with single-dz templates or double dz-transitions. How can I get my multiple-drop-zones templates working, and how do I determine the order of which dz takes which clip?
I wanted to put a certain filter on multiple clips at once, by just selecting all the clips. This didn't work. Is the only way to do this by turning them into a compound clip?
how can I more easily set in-and-out-points in audio clips without dragging them to the timeline? Do I have to import them as files rather than just dragging from the iTunes tab?
Thanks for your time&help.
Irene

Thanks Tom, that's very helpful (and quick too).
I was using Custom text so yes, that explains it.
Ah wait, I can make the text primary storyline just for applying the transition and then go back to where my other clips are primary storyline? That would solve the issue (and some others, too)! Great!
I will play around with the copy/paste.
Oh, one more thing. This seemed to be a bug, a very frustrating one .
I made my item in several projects before glueing the 5 parts together. The first two I could just do by copying and pasting from another project. However, the 3rd copy-paste just wouldn't work. FC continued to paste the former edit. Even when I quit FC and restarted. Even when I deliberately emptied the clipboard by pasting some line of text from another program. Even when I turned the part of the project that I wanted to transfer into a compound clip. In the end I solved it by exporting the project and importing it as a file into the Events so that I could paste it, and this worked. (2nd time round because the first time all my text effects had resetted).
The next copy-paste, part 5 of the video, worked fine again. I've no idea why this happened, but it is probably too specific.
Anyway, thanks again Tom, greatly appreciated.

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