Photo booth videos are saving as corrupted/blank files.

What system are you running, Big Sur? It works fine for me on Monterey. Also RoaringApps.com report compatiblity with Big Sur.

Give this a try: boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following; 

• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed

• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)

• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically

• Disables user-installed fonts 

• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files

Which repair mov service did you use?? I'm having the same issue :( All the repair services seem so sketchy suggesting VLC first and then offering their services as a "last resort". Definitely doesn't make me trust that any of them actually work. But I really need to recover the video I made. It's 47 minutes long, but showing up as 0:00 in PhotoBooth, Finder, and VLC. Any advice would be so appreciated!

Facing the same problem. Located the folder where it's stored after some help from https://www.howtogeek.com/714244/where-is-the-pictures-folder-on-a-mac/.

Renaming to .m4v or .mp4 and playing with VLC doesn't work for me.

I'm uploading the video onto https://fix.video/ to see if it will fix the issue - and at the end, they charge $9 (false free marketing). Need to look for a new one.

Gave up at the end (after 45 mins searching for a solution), and took a video using my pixel phone.

Hi! Has anyone found a solution yet? This happened to me today when I recorded something on my PhotoBooth on my new 2021 Macbook Pro (running on Monterey OS). Really urgent for me to recover this .MOV file as right now it's not even playing and any free website converter I upload it to, it just says "error". Please help Apple!

Jumping in - I've been experiencing the same issue. Some videos work but some videos come out corrupted. Very frustrating indeed. I have the newest model MacBook Pro M1 13'. Praying that Apple will pay attention to this issue, because it is quite disappointing all things considered.

My built-in camera since updating to Monterey has changed also, it has less contrast and saturation making videos and photos look pale. This never occurred while on Big Sur, the picture and video was normal (saturated and contrasted well). I have no idea how to fix it, I've tried safe boot, erasing data and restoring mac to factory default. Yet the issue persists. :(

I am having the exact same problem. Since update to Monterey, any video (on built-in camera) longer than a couple of minutes is corrupted and won't play from the saved file in the Photo Booth folder. Looking at the number of folk making the same type of comment here, it seems to be widespread.

Omg…..same issue! Apple Support, this is a huge issue for your customers. I recorded using my photo booth video feature because I needed to reference the footage at a later date. The 2+ hrs of info on my video is critical to my success. It’s extremely disappointing that over a year later customers are still experiencing this issue with no resolve, support, or response from your team. You all should have at least disabled the video feature or sent an error message so we wouldn’t be misled that it actually works & we could have located a service that actually works. Now what are we suppose to do? When do you all plan to fix this issue? The lack of follow us is unsatisfactory. Please follow up ASAP.

Where are the movies being saved? I found them in the Photo Booth Library in my Pictures folder. I had to Control (right) - click on the library and select Show Contents from the contextual menu. I copied a test movie that I made and it played with Quicktime Player.

Try using the free app VLC to play the movie file. If it works you can then covert it to the .m4v format with VLC.

Have you installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?

I'm having the same problem too! PLEASE respond to me if someone found an actual solution thank you so much.

What's going on with this? I'm having the same issue and it's very frustrating. Some work, others don't. What is the fix Apple??

Hi, has someone managed to fix their video? this happened to me today and it is really annoying!

Apple please can you sort as a matter of urgency?

thank you

Give this a try: boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following; 

• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed

• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)

• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically

• Disables user-installed fonts 

• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files

SAME ISSUE and driven to despair!!! Seriously need this video and can't figure out how to even download the Untrunc zip ): probably going to pay for some service that fixes corrupt videos ): ):

FIX THIS @apple

I am on Monterey 12.3.1, MBP 16 inch 2021 M1 Max.

I recorded a 45 minute funeral talk today and the file is showing the same symptoms, 0 length, will not open, obviously this is devastating as we were going to share the video with friends and family who could not attend.

Tried video repair tools and they only can recover 25 minutes of unsynced video. I fear we may have lost it forever now because of this awful bug.