No room tone, no hope!

I don't think you will get an app to do that because it won't know what is part of the RT and what isn't. There is a tool that you can give a sample of RT and it will generate more sound with a similar spectrum and such. That I think is about as close as you are going to get.

As Paulears mentioned it's the lack of, well, "noise" that stands out. Which goes back to my point that IF you do a real narrative sound post and have a lot of tracks you will never have silence. You may still have to fill some places where you can hear the "noise" cut out but since there is so much else going on the fill doesn't have to be perfect to disappear.

So with full tracks you will probably only have a few spots where you actually need to fill holes (unless the production is REALLY noisey).

If you are not going to play the bare dialog track for anyone like the director you don't need to have a completely filled dialog track (usually).

Traditionally the other big reason you added some form of generic RT was that with optical tracks you can't ever go to no sound. If you do the decoder acts up and weird things come out. So there are famously omnipresent ambiences like "Yellow Sky" that were duped and cut in when ever there was "silence".

I have a few of these from transfered old optical recordings. They were mostly just recordings of empty sound stages. YS was I believe recorded on the set of the film by the same name but?
 
Things I learned so far while cutting dialogue on this feature:

1. Ear fatigue can really affect the way things sound. I started with my monitor volume about a 1/3rd of the way up, now the pots gone up to 5/8ths.

2. Small, underbone motorcycles which are common in our neck of the woods emit an exhaust note that can be cut somewhere around 220Hz, along with the rest of actors deep voice.

3. I'm starting to fall in love with an expander filter.

4. A denoiser can only do so much good until it can actually be more trouble than it's worth.

5. Finding the perfect ambience can take hours and hours of sorting through hundreds (or thousands like others) of files, finding out that it doesn't work with the location and the scene when you edit it in can take just mere seconds.

6. Psy's latest single "Gentleman" which is a big hit here in asia is fun to listen to through a $2,000 sound system, but is insanely annoying if you hear it through $100 monitor headphones when you're cutting dialogue.
 
RE:4, There are many different noise reducing plugins some are better than others. All can eat your day trying to salvage something that in the end you realize you just have to leave or replace.

RE:5, You will save your self a ton of time and frustration if you break down the sound you want and build it instead of trying to find it. As you found out looking for the perfect background can take forever. But if you layer up a wind you like and maybe some birds and some rustling trees etc. you can take a BG that wasn't working and build it into the one you want.
 
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