I've been using photo booth video recording since Leopard came out, but just last week, when i record video in PB, it has no sound. it show just the video.
How can i get the sound back? I checked my mic volume and it's on and max.
Did you check your sound input through system preferences. I had similar problem in PB. Found my input device was not assigned to my built in speakers. Go to system preferences - sound - input - double check your built in speaker is assigned.
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!
I had the same no sound problem with photo booth. I tried the start garage band and quit it and imagine my surprise...it worked. I have no idea why, but Photo booth sound is working again.
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.
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.
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!
I agree the audio input is a problem. I recorded a 3 second clip with audio, then a 3 minute clip NO AUDIO and then a 10 second clip with audio - All back to back - no rhyme or reason for the missing audio. Unless there is a time limit to the length of the recording...
