Video Card question.

GerryLeacock wrote on 12/22/2002, 11:27 AM

I have a Dell with WinXP and am using VF2.0. When I do a zoom in on a still picture, any natural lines in the picture (corners of walls, edges of furniture, etc) get an extreme zig zag look, like stair steps, as it's zooming in. Is this normal? I have the very basic low-end video card that Dell provides, because I wasn't expecting to get hooked on this video thing. Would upgrading the video card help? Thanks!

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Chienworks wrote on 12/22/2002, 11:40 AM

It depends on how far you're zooming in. Pictures are made up pixels (kinda like a checkerboard). Each pixel is a solid discrete color. If you zoom in far enough, you'll start seeing these pixels as individual rectangles instead of them all blending in to each other (kinda like looking at a newspaper photograph through a magnifying glass). This is just the way digital images are made.

Upgrading your video card isn't necessary. Any card will show you the same pixels, and the video card needs of video editing are very modest.