How to force a shutter speed on footage that strobes due to LED lighting?

I shot some footage of a speaker against a projected backdrop that had LED lights and didn't have time to find the right shutter speed before it actually started. So now the background strobes quite frequently random colors due to them being out of sync. During the break I found that 1/60th of a second shutter speed evened it out enough to be watchable. So part 2 is okay but part 1 is horrible. I've already tried a slew of plugs in FCP and am stuck. I shot some burlesque footage a while back that had this same issue but turned it into old aged film and you can't tell. But this is for a client that kind of needs this to be clear for training. Help please! I know Shake has the power to do this, but not sure where the tool is...???

The best way to deal with stuff like this is to be creative with it. I'm sure some of the regulars to this forum have heard this story many times before but I'm going to tell it again anyway. I was working on a movie in Seattle that was shot on 35mm. We'd shoot one day and get the telecined tapes back the next day (or the day after if there were a lot). The last day of shooting came along, and the crew packed up and left for LA the next morning, with the post guys staying in Seattle to continue the edit. We got that last tape back after they'd left and guess what? One of the camera angles in a conversation scene was completely out of focus. The other guy was fine but every shot of the main character was unusable. Everyone had left - there was no way we could reshoot it, so we put our thinking caps on and ended up cutting in the good angle as a flashback during another scene. The result was awesome and far more powerful than the original scene would have been, and we'd never have found it if that angle hadn't been out of focus. I want to shake that AC by the hand if I ever see him again.
So try to think of a creative way around the problem and it could end up being even better.

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