Varying levels in a clip

Hi there,
I am new to Final Cut Pro.
I shot a performane using a Panasonic AG-HVX200. It was a reading, and the two performers sat in front of a projection screen that ran a film clip.
The problem is that I forgot to disable the autmatic settings on the camera. Since the other performances were without the projection, they all recorded fine. But on this one, the camera changes the settings every time the background gets brighter or darker.
Is there a way to get FCP to look at the clip and equalize the brightness settings?
Thanks in advance for any help!

That would be done by an editor/colorist - not automatically by software. Although you could try one of the Broadcast Safe filters to keep whites legal.
Or you could cut the clip up into bright scenes and regular scenes. If the bright scenes were all pretty much the same, you could adjust one clip with the appropriate filter, then copy that clip. Next, select all other bight scenes, right-click on one and select Paste Attributes / Filters to adjust all the others with one action.
-DH

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