Photo booth videos are saving as corrupted/blank files.

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.

I am experiencing the same problem. I'm making an educated guess that the security features with screen lock are causing a write error. I have tried disabling the screen lock feature and it seems to work, but wanted to toss this hypothesis out there to see if anyone else who's having this issue can replicate this pattern.

Obviously the only way to fix this is to wait for a new patch because i don't want to have to disable this every time and I certainly don't want to leave my system unprotected. Hopefully this gives some of the developers some place to look.

So I've been seeing this with some movies that I've recorded, and I opened them up to take a look at them.

Using Synalyze It! Pro I have found that the corrupt files look like this:

Note the 'qt ' atom and the 0 value for the 'wide' atom.

My good (usually much shorter) files look like this:

Note that they have an `mp42` atom instead.

Both of these are recorded using the same process (in my case recording an iOS simulator using simctl). I don't know why the format difference. I can repair the corrupt ones sometimes using external services.

This is so frusturating. My videos used to save fine until a couple months ago they began saving as corrupted files. Why is Apple not taking this seriously?

Apple products are now crap… that’s the answer… every machine I’ve bought since 2011 had been a major dud. I have a 2009 iMac still running!

Hi, I started experiencing the same issue. Tried every single thing in the book, still nothing. macOs Ventura. Any updates?

Still no fix for photo booth? I am continuing to have this issue.

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

This is really frustrating. Buying a new macbook pro created so many problems for me in almost every area of work. Apple continues to disappoint more and more... what a bummer.

This is still a problem for me; I have a late 2016 MacBook Air running on Monterey 12.3.1 - I just updated it last night. I recorded a 2:30 test video and it just read 0:00 in the lower right, showed the corrupted screen that people have been posting when I tried to play it. I need to record a 20min video for school today, so I guess it's off to find plan B for that. Worked well last semester (in the fall).

I am so gutted. This just happened to me with an important video assessment I was trying to complete at work. I did a quick troubleshooting session through Apple Chat-the only thing we tried so far is rebooting in safe mode and trying to open the video that way which did not work. I will reach out to support again later today but am feeling pretty hopeless that it will be recovered. This is such a bummer.

I’m having the same problem since upgrading to Monterey

I’ve also completely reformatted the MacBook Pro and immediately started recording video and same issue whether it’s 10 minutes or an hour after I press stop button the video shows as 0:00 and around 25 megabytes

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

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.