CatBus said:

bkev said:
I am curious as to why the decision was made to add it at all.

It was shakier in the theatre, but we don't have much in the way of usable references for that. It's a best effort. I'm not sure it's good enough either but I trust Harmy to make the call.

It was shakier in all pre-SE versions. The SE version either has a new shake effect, or we're seeing the original in-camera shake. Either way, the much more violent initial shake prior to the SE was done optically. Some frames were smeared (I assume by using a long exposure and moving the image during exposure), and some frames were repositioned off-center (which may be why the whole image was cropped differently in the original; I'm guessing the whole scene was blown up and cropped so that it could be moved around optically, and that for the SE they cropped the original camera footage to roughly match the '77 framing). Either way, it created the illusion that the camera was being jolted around more than it actually was in the original footage.

I think it could be better recreated, though. Rather than blending the frames together, perhaps each frame could be individually manipulated in Photoshop. I'm sure there are ways to smear images in PS, and perhaps if two images were laid on top of each other at 50% opacity, each frame could be positioned relative to the adjacent ones to match the optical shake effect.

I'll post frames from the '77 shake (and not the DVNR'ed GOUT) to show how it didn't look blurry in every frame.