Correcting Over-Exposure

I have some footage which shows mild to moderate over-exposure. What is the best way to correct for this? Is there an effect which acts as a type of limiter, keeping luminance values below a user-defined threshold?
Thanks.

The problem is, given the limited luminance space in video, once you get to white it just fills everything with the same colour because that's the ceiling. Everything that would be brighter just gets clamped to white. This means you lose the fine detail that you would otherwise get if you just wound the iris down in the camera during shooting. Because that space is all the same colour/brightness when you change the levels of the white it just drags the whole slab of white down to grey rather than reintroduce the fine detail. All you can do, as Harm has said, is to take the edge off the highlights so it's not quite so harsh.
Good luck. Let us know how you go.

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