no sound on Photo Booth video when recorded

I had no sound and thought I'd try the flicking suggestion.. HOWEVER... I interpreted this suggestion to go to system preferences and to the sound then input menu and 'flick' (toggle) the choices back and forth between internal microphone and line in. THIS WORKED. I did not have to reinstall anything NOR did I physically flick the microphone.

Jakalin

My PB intermittently records audio with video. There are two videos my daughter recorded which have no audio. One of them in particular I would really like to have the audio to (she recored it the morning our pet died and she was talking about losing him). I have tried opening those videos in Quicktime and they have no audio there either.

If PB is not playing the video with audio, does the audio track not exist? I just keep hoping that the audio track exists and that I'll be able to salvage it somehow. I'm afraid that it just didn't record audio.

PB works fine now...on all the videos I could care less about...

Any ideas? Thanks!

I have recently been getting the same problem too. It seems to happen on the longer videos for me, but I haven't done a thorough investigation. I was using it to record song ideas (guitar and signing) and my first thought was that it was automatically reducing the mic input when I was playing loudly, but it seems like it isn't recording at all. However, when I do a quick 5-10 second "test" clip, it almost always works. I guess I'll use something more reliable until a solution is found.

Thanks - that worked for me. I changed the input to line input on my MacBook, restarted Photo Booth (just in case) and recorded - no audio of course as I have nothing attached. Then I changed back to the in built Mic and recorded and audio was restored. Great.

Select "Go" from the finder menu, highlight Photo Booth and keep selecting " the folder above " till the option to select folder above is no longer available and Open Photo Booth.

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*Possible PB audio problem fix*


thanks to larksthrak i thought of this.

i just got my macbook about 2 weeks ago, my old one was form 2004 and battery wouldn't last unless it was always plugged in. I use garage band a lot, and when i read larksthrak say they thought it was "automatically reducing the mic input" i remembered that garage band had the "Feedback Protection" option. and then i remembered that was the last thing i did before PB stopped recording sound. I went in to garageband created a new real instrument track, i put the feedback protection on, then turned the monitor off. opened up PB, recorded a video and audio worked when i played the video back.

i don't know if it did do something or it was a coincidence, but i do know that now audio works for me.

i hope this helps.

Go to HD > System folder > Audio > Plug-ins > HAL > " iSight Audio.Plugin"

If this folder is empty use Time Machine to find a copy of this plugin and place it back in the folder.
When you have another mac around you can make a copy of the plugin and use that.

I ran into this issue last night. A 30 minute video had no sound when playing it through PB and the QT player (I assume PB uses QT on the backend), but a 2.5 minute video did. I opened the 30 minute video in VLC ( http://www.videolan.org), the best multimedia player I know, and the audio track was there.

Admittedly, I have not played with it enough to give more information than that, but for those looking to salvage videos that don't have audio, you may find that the audio is actually there. Good luck!

*I FIXED MY PROBLEMS WITH IT... KINDA! I THINK IT IS MORE A QUICKTIME PROBLEM*
Hey guys... i was having the issue of photo booth not recording sound sometimes, very random but felt like the longer the vid the more likely it was to not have sound in play back... so i was about to delete all the useless mute videos i recorded when i thought i would try to open the .mov files (drag the clip thumbnail from photo booth to a location, eg. desktop) with VLC media player instead of quicktime (7.5) and guess what?!?! it worked! yay! i donno why but i works. 😀 i have been to a few other forums but cant be bothered posting cos not a member and what not so if you are please repost, thanks and good luck

I'll add my voice to the already clamorous din of Mac users whose Photo Booth video/audio functionality has been broken by Apple. Apple are fast becoming a company I dislike, I have a laundry list of bugs with .Mac (sorry MobileMe) Logic 8 and Leopard in general. This new addition is especially irritating because this app used to work perfectly! They managed to break something that had no problems for crying out loud!
I only discovered this new addition to my list of Apple failures 2007/08 today, after recommending to a client that he use his MacBook and Photo Booth to quickly and easily rehearse a speech he has to give. He's not much of a techie and I was looking for the simplest way for him to get what he wanted without any technical headaches. "Recording a little video in Photo Booth is so easy that it's almost impossible to mess up" I thought, and recommended away. A short while later I get a phone call saying he has recorded the speech, but can't hear himself back. Cue troubleshooting of problem, and the eventual discovery of this bug. I have to say I was in disbelief of Apple managing to mess up so badly because I have used this feature since the day I purchased my MacBook Pro, and have found it to be exceedingly helpful. I haven't used it for a couple of months, so one of the updates that has been automatically installed on my machine since then has managed to break it. Unbelievable! Not only are they not fixing the problems they already have, they are creating new ones where previously there were none! More and more Apple products are not as they used to be. It used to be a case of them "just working", intuitive, simple, solid. It's what customers were willing to pay the premium for. Now though (since the iPhone anyone?) there products are flakey, unreliable and full of bugs. They compound the matter with their lack of user communication. Furthermore, the veil of secrecy and sense of self importance that Apple seems to pride itself on seems more than a little pompous given that in the last year they have lurched from technical disaster to technical disaster. Meanwhile they have probably never made more money because everyone on the planet is selling their Granny to buy an iPhone.
I'm a professional user of Apple products, I've invested heavily in them, and come to rely on them for my business needs. Every time they fail on me I am the one left red-faced having to explain the technical difficulty, and every time this happens I am also left with the thought; "Why am I paying twice the price for Apple products when they have (in a very short space of time) managed to become more unreliable than the systems I abandoned due to reliability."

Even if after much messing around I do actually manage to get Photo Booth working again, the point remains the same: I can no longer rely upon or recommend Apple, it might be broken since last time I checked.

To say I am frustrated would be an understatement.

uhm. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to a Mac. (got fed up with Windows lol.) Anyway, I've been using Photo Booth to record playing my guitar (for youtube, that kind of thing) and usually I will have audio no problem. But then SOMETIMES I don't. It is quite irritating, especially when I get a take that I think sounded especially good only to discover that there is no sound. All the sound settings look ok...

This worked for me! I can now record in QuickTime using the build in Mic and the audio compression setting (device native worked earlier as well).

So weird, I used GarageBand for podcast recording a while ago. I Guess this activated the feedback protection and the automatic gain control. Disabling feedback protection and automatic gain control, quitting GarageBand solved the problem. I can now record audio in QuickTime again. Thanks!

glad I'm not the only one with this issue.

to clear the air - the issue seems to be intermittent - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - it's just unpredictable - not knowing when it's not going to work is pretty much what is frustrating for most of us is what I imagine.

the only workaround I hear so far is to use something other than the internal-mic.

I think it's great Photo Booth is a really simple way to record video to be honest! just want it to work predictably like it does with Skype for example.

Look forward to a solution!

For me it seems to be an issue related to length of the video. I can't seem to get any sound on a video longer than ~ 3 min. I just switched to an external mic via line-in, and the problem persists. Weird.

Hi,

Here is an easy fix!! All I did was goto System Preferences-Sound-Input, and I flipped around and moved the settings back and forth, up and down, literally just moving around the slide buttons. Ultimately ending up lowering the volume of the line in mic and raising the volume of the built in mic. I restarted photo booth, and it worked!

J