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Help! Quick! Does your mac record audio in Photobooth?
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In sound preferences pane is your mic enabled? Also, I find recording video through quicktime is far better than through photo booth.
This is crazy! What verisions of OSX and of photobooth are you guys running?
I am using 10.5.2 of MacOSX and version 2.0.1 (72) of photobooth, and the lady said it isn't SUPPOSED to work anymore! They disabled it in the last update apparently.
THIS IS CRAZY!
The mic is enabled in system preferences. I want to use the 'effects' of photobooth.
Thanks.
BTW everyone... thanks so much for the quick replies. I wasn't able to keep her on the phone though... Imagine that!
Apple outsources support for PHOTOBOOTH, the app, by the way. I had to wait an extrra 35 minutes to reach their "photobooth division".
I am using 10.5.2 of MacOSX and version 2.0.1 (72) of photobooth, and the lady said it isn't SUPPOSED to work anymore! They disabled it in the last update apparently.
THIS IS CRAZY!
The mic is enabled in system preferences. I want to use the 'effects' of photobooth.
Thanks.
BTW everyone... thanks so much for the quick replies. I wasn't able to keep her on the phone though... Imagine that!
Apple outsources support for PHOTOBOOTH, the app, by the way. I had to wait an extrra 35 minutes to reach their "photobooth division".
Very strange. Since I can't get any help from Apple... would anyone else have a suggestion on how to make the recording audio/video functionality work in photobooth?
Also, I've found this entire thread on Apple Discussions with people having the exact same problem as me. But there is no fix! For some people, it works fine, for others not at all, some people it works some times and not others...
And Apple says its not supposed to work!
I've spent around 4 hours on the phone with Apple over the last week. I got forwarded quite high up the heirarchy and even ended up talking to an Apple 'engineer' who -- as you can imagine -- seemed a bit more intelligent than your average customer service agent.
They ended up sending me a little piece of software which took logs of everythign happening on my computer, and were planning on getting back to me with a list of things to try on Friday. They did send me a quick message and suggest that the problem may be a program I have called 'Menu Meters', so I will be deleting that... but I should have more to report come Friday!
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Also, as an FYI, the problem has nothing to do with your cache in either the home library or the system library. It also has nothing to do with user-installed quicktime components. These were the two major things we had tried over the phone with no luck.
Fixed by QT mic volume up trick
I got luck getting this working by opening Quictime Player , Start new video recording, record - move the mic volume slider in the rec. window. Close recording in QT, go to Photobooth, record there ... voila the sound is now captured.
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mrcookie
I got luck getting this working by opening Quictime Player , Start new video recording, record - move the mic volume slider in the rec. window. Close recording in QT, go to Photobooth, record there ... voila the sound is now captured.
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mrcookie
small detail...
when you're in the sound section of the preferences pane, and you're choosing the input source, make sure that when you exit, the internal mic is still selected... there is no actual box or mark that shows you it is selected rather than the input mic. I'm almost certain its defaulted to line in when you use garage band with an external input mic. so basically, you must exit the preferences with internal mic highlighted. Seems simple but it can be easy to assume that they are both active or that because you still see internal mic on the screen its active, when it depends on you actually selecting it giving it the (blue) highlight
when you're in the sound section of the preferences pane, and you're choosing the input source, make sure that when you exit, the internal mic is still selected... there is no actual box or mark that shows you it is selected rather than the input mic. I'm almost certain its defaulted to line in when you use garage band with an external input mic. so basically, you must exit the preferences with internal mic highlighted. Seems simple but it can be easy to assume that they are both active or that because you still see internal mic on the screen its active, when it depends on you actually selecting it giving it the (blue) highlight
MrCookie!!!!! UR the man!!!!
That worked for me! You succeeded where Apple Engineers failed.
Alternate Audio Input w Photo Booth
Can you set the audio input to photo booth via preferences?
My goal is to capture video from my iBooth camera and the audio coming from my DAW. I am using propellerheads Reason/RECORD program... would like to be able to gat a AAA audio from the audio program while shooting video as I am writing or printing a solo... as a visual ref that actually sounds and looks good.
I am getting my motu ultra lite interface back this week and will try setting it as the audio preference and see what happens.
I have had similar experiences when asking any of the MAC store so called specialists a question about audio... unfortunately none of them seem to squat about audio outside of garage band.
Apple might take note that a simple update to the program to allow an alternate input source such as a AUDIO RECORDING program only facilitates integration and optimization of this great little iBooth program. C'mon APPLE wake up... have a 5 hour energy and stop admiring your work!
Can you set the audio input to photo booth via preferences?
My goal is to capture video from my iBooth camera and the audio coming from my DAW. I am using propellerheads Reason/RECORD program... would like to be able to gat a AAA audio from the audio program while shooting video as I am writing or printing a solo... as a visual ref that actually sounds and looks good.
I am getting my motu ultra lite interface back this week and will try setting it as the audio preference and see what happens.
I have had similar experiences when asking any of the MAC store so called specialists a question about audio... unfortunately none of them seem to squat about audio outside of garage band.
Apple might take note that a simple update to the program to allow an alternate input source such as a AUDIO RECORDING program only facilitates integration and optimization of this great little iBooth program. C'mon APPLE wake up... have a 5 hour energy and stop admiring your work!
My glitch is funny. It works every third time or so. Really frustrating because you think you have it working and then you do a recording and there is no sound!
I tried the quickplayer trick, but it says I need to purchase quickplayer pro to record new video. Do you all have the purchased version?
I tried the quickplayer trick, but it says I need to purchase quickplayer pro to record new video. Do you all have the purchased version?