Equivalent to "Recovery" for pulling down blown-out highlights?

When I edit photos, many programs have a slider called "Recovery" that just pulls back overblown highlights.

I have some indoor video shots with windows in them, which are of course more blown out than the rest of the scene. FCPX's built-in color correction isn't as sophisticated as photo editors or I'm not finding the right combination of settings to deal with this.

I've just been using the built-in color correction tools, either with one correction or with a second one that has a color mask on it for the highlights. But that color mask isn't very adjustable - it seems like you've just got the eye dropper and that's it, I can't find a way to adjust what's being masked after that.

Any tips or other plug-ins for pulling up the exposure of an interior shot but mitigating the blown out highlights of a window?

You can create a shape mask (or a color mask) for the window, and then in the color board for that effect you can select to affect the highlight OUTSIDE the mask. You can add multiple color correction effects in the latest FCPX 10.2 and in each of them you can choose to have your adjustments modify INSIDE or OUTSIDE any mask you create.

When I edit photos, many programs have a slider called "Recovery" that just pulls back overblown highlights.

I dare to say; little chance for a fix in the post ...




(over exagerated example, just to make my point clear)

Video is highly compressed material, much more compressed than photos, not to mention RAW) ...so, when the scopes show clipping = flat line, the damage is done. No chance to recover detail where there is no detail anymore .... Many cams offer an on-screen control, e.g. zebra patterns, to warn your about clipping...