Adjusting for Backlighting

I'm combining footage from a party that was shot by two people using two different cameras. One individual did a terrible job of taking into consideration indoor backlighting. For instance one relatively long sequence has the quests of honor standing next to each other about two feet apart. Directly behind and between them is a lamp. So...the lamp is bright - faces dark. During a toast, the speaker is standing in front of a patio door. Nice exposure of the yard outside, crummy exposure of the speaker.
So the questions is...as a newbie with FCE, is there a way for me to adjust the exposure in these scenes. Please don't assume too much. I'm learning.
Thanks.

You can try this, it should make some improvement depending on how blown out the whites are:
Place the Playhead over a dodgy clip in the Timeline.
Double click the clip in question in the Timeline and it opens in the Viewer. You should see two identical views in the Viewer and Timeline. Note the Viewer has dots in the Scrubber Bar indicating a clip from the Timeline and not the Browser.
Drag the Viewer clip onto the Superimpose Canvas Overlay. The Timeline should have two exact clips stacked one on top of the other. If you don't want the audio stacked, disconnect the the audio Patch Panels by clicking on them.
Important: Double click the newly added Timeline clip and it opens in the Viewer.
Go to Effects>Image Control>Gamma Correction and drag this filter onto the Viewer. Click the Filters Tab in the Viewer to reveal the Gamma controls. Move as required to lift the dark areas.
Next, enable the opacity overlays if they are already switched on. Do this by clicking on the ZigZag shaped button at the bottom left of the Timeline. Go the the upper clip in the Timeline with the added filter and drag this opacity overlay line down. What you are doing is reducing the opacity of the upper clip to allow the lower clip to be revealed.
You will need to find the _sweet spot_ between how much the Gamma is raised and how much to lower the opacity to make both clips look best working together as one.
Al
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