FalseColor

FalseColor is a diagnostic Resolve FX Color effect (Studio) that replaces the visible brightness distribution with conventional color bands. It does not recover exposure or perform a clean grade: its mapping appears only in the branch containing the effect. Use separate ColorCorrector or ColorCurves nodes for the actual correction.

Plugin Mode is the key distinction. Specific Camera Model aims to match the monitoring false color of a chosen Blackmagic sensor, Film/Video/Extended Video setting and ISO. Creative lets you author your own brightness ranges, colors and stylized palettes.

Camera mapping requires matching the SIGNAL at the effect input. An upstream CST, LUT, RCM transform or normalization may no longer resemble the recorded Blackmagic Film signal. Selecting the correct camera but interpreting the wrong upstream signal cannot yield camera-accurate readings.

The six original captures display URSA Mini Pro 4.6K, Film and ISO 800. That is one captured configuration, not a universal factory default. Camera and ISO menus photographed here do not guarantee identical choices across camera models or future Resolve releases.

In Creative mode the manual documents Color Bands with Creative Style, Number of Bands, Show Sliders, Color and individual Top/Bottom bounds. The archived screenshots do not show the expanded Creative controls. A gray-looking menu row is not reliable evidence that Creative is unavailable.

Pre-Processing occurs BEFORE classification: Blur reduces fine texture, Black Level and White Level shift shadow/highlight assignment, and Gamma redistributes the midtones. All four are described by the reference; the group itself remains collapsed in the captured Inspector.

Scale / Legend is a bar on the left baked into the output image, not a private viewer HUD. Show Scale toggles the bar, Show Values numeric marks and Show Labels key landmarks such as middle gray. If FalseColor feeds MediaOut, its map and enabled legend are rendered into the deliverable.

Contrast in Scale/Legend changes the TRANSPARENCY OF THE LEGEND UNDERLAY; it does not intensify mapped bands or correct the source. Value Detail controls numeric-label density. Neither should be confused with Number of Bands, which actually changes the Creative tonal partition.

Value Style only formats labels: Percentage uses 0–100%, Hundredths uses 0–100 without a percent sign, and Normalized uses 0.0–1.0. The photographed Hundredths value is not camera precision, source exposure or EV stops.

A safe workflow keeps FalseColor on a Viewer-only inspection path while the original/corrected image travels along the clean output route. When comparing shots or preprocessing settings, keep mode and thresholds matched and consult a waveform to confirm the source levels.

The physical Node Editor sockets, including any optional blue Effect Mask, are not photographed in this package. Authored lesson signatures therefore specify only the supported core 2D Image input and output. Extra sockets and target-version effect behavior require a separate native verification.

Interactive examples validate static ports and teaching settings, but they are neither importable .comp compositions nor GPU-render evidence. Native acceptance still needs Resolve Studio, known footage, scopes comparison and saved output evidence.