Re: Poll - What do you guys call yourselves? "Colorist" - "Resolve Operator" - "Super Awesoome Color Person"

A Telecine Colorist would be a colorist who operates a telecine - IOW, film to tape transfer. If you're not working with film, you're not a Telecine colorist, regardless of how often this term is misused. Calling oneself anything that has the word "Resolve" in it is very limiting, as Resolve is only one piece of gear among many in use today and operating the equipment is not the real skill, coloring is. So using that term limits one's appeal to companies that are only using Resolve, not a good thing to do in today's world even if 99% of the work you do happens to be on Resolve. An Online Finisher is responsible for many things, including but not limited to conforming, compositing, paint effects, rig and wire removals and other cleanup effects, titling, transition creation, versioning, and occasional light color work. Anyone with that job description is using working on platforms like Symphony, Smoke, Avid DS, or Quantel iQ, not DaVinci Resolve. So unless you're doing all of those things, you're not an Online Finisher.

That leaves Colorist, which is the simplest, most direct, and most accurate term for someone doing color grading as their primary task.