Facetime cannot find my built in camera on my MacBook Air

I have a MacBook Air 3.2 (Late 2010 13") and I have tried several times to use Facetime for Mac but it does not see my built in camera. Any suggestions?

This one stumped me for a while too. Sometimes it would work (usually after a restart) but then would stop working some indeterminant amount of time later. I think another process might be using the camera.
Go to Terminal.app and type in sudo killall VDCAssistant (and enter your admin password; alternatively find the VDCAssistant processing Activity Monitor and stop it that way). This will stop other processes that might be reserving the camera.

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