Turn a color into white in Secondary room

Hi everyone,
This might be a pretty simple thing to do but I have not been able to figure it out and Google has not provided much luck. Basically, I have a window in a scene that was filmed at night, so it's all black...problem is, the rest of the scene takes place during the day. All I want to do is select the black portion of the window and change it to white. Is there a way to do this in the Secondaries room? Thanks!

Just curious to know... a number of things.
A. What does "Google" know about color grading?
B. We often hear about "Day for Night"... but... "Night for Day"?
C. How did "Secondaries" become the candidate for what is clearly an FX fix?
D. Do you not have a "compositing" application... or experiential background in repurposing such a shot?
You will probably have to custom-shape a matte to re-introduce another element to stand in for the window, as pi suggests, and I'm also betting there will be some tracking/stabilizing necessary. A straight correction will not work, since the noise that will come along with your "film" values will be astonishingly objectionable. I'd suggest a key, but the black noise will probably rule that out as well. A white solid is a good idea... I'd also toss out the idea of using an "inverse" of the original shot -- so that all the blacks are now white -- and work some combination of window(matte/vignette)+key. You can do that with HSL qualifiers in the COLORFX room. In COLORFX, of course, there are no user-shape nodes or the ability to import a roto-shape, say from SHAKE. In fact exporting the shot to another application will give you more control to finesse the effect convincingly.
I'd try the new DaVinci/Blackmagic Resolve. This would be easy in that application, because it does all those things that COLOR cannot, or will not... depends on the developer, I guess.
If you don't do this right, you may as well not do it, or re-shoot. Your audience will want their money back otherwise.
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