Thank you Doug – for your reply and all of your contributions to The Cow.

I support being risk averse – it seems like being open to the harsh realities of drive failures. Now I’m working on adding off-site backup, and that’s where the iDrive service comes in. It seems very convenient, and semi-automated which is a plus. But an issue may be that…

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I re-working my archive of FCP Libraries using an online, off-site backup service. Should I compress (zip) the Library files before uploading them? Also, have you had experience with the backup service iDrive?

There’s a lot that I don’t know about audio, but your point is excellent, and it’s the one that I’m familiar with. I had a long run as a crew member on big TV and movie shoots (Prop / Set Dresser), where getting clean sound is a priority. I probably spent months of cumulative time being silent after they yelled “rolling sound!”

Thanks Chris – Izotope is new to me. Sounds really good!

Thanks – that’s interesting Chris. I’m curious what technology you use for the processes you mention (isolation, voice denoise, de-wind). I’m not an audio pro – I came over here with a question from the Final Cut forum!

From their website, Cedar looks like it has the answers to my question “what is the best post-production ambient noise reduction technology?”. Of course talk (or a website) is cheap. But I bet their software isn’t! If you hear of a company that uses their tech and will do work on an “outside” project please let me know. I might be able to afford that.

Thank you Ty! Between you and John I now have my work cut out for me. I like the “sound” of multiple passes….

Thank you John. Sometimes I hate the internet, but at this moment I’m loving it for connecting me so easily to someone as experienced and thoughtful as you!

I hope this is a good place to post this!

My question is: what is currently the best post-production ambient noise reduction technology?

I’ve been using Crumblepop’s Audio Denoise AI plug-in, and it seems to
do a very good job, considering how loud and “wide spectrum” (I think)
the noise I’m dealing with is. I’m wondering if there is something…

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Thank you Jeremy!

I am using iDrive for off site backups, including FCP files – libraries, media files, etc. When I use the iDrive app to look at what has been uploaded to their cloud storage I do not see the familiar FCP Library icons – the purple square with four stars. Instead, it looks like the “container” of the Library (I don’t know the correct term) has been…

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I’m using FCP 10.5.2 on an iMac, working with material that originated as videotapes. Most of the tapes became single AVI files, up to 30 GB in size. I started by creating FCP Libraries, each of which contained the file(s) from one videotape.

But now I’m creating projects that use files sourced from multiple tapes. Also, with some files being… Read more