IMovie HD fails to reconise iSight

Since updating Tiger to 10.4.4. today my iMovie refuses to reconise my iSight.
When i select iSight in iMovie all i get is the blue screen telling me there is no camera connected.
I have tryed unpluging and reconnecting the sight but to no avail.
My iChat works fine with my sight and everything else on my iMac seems fine.
Anyone have any idea's?

Hi Lennart,
I have my isight plugged into my iBook at this moment.
Works fine both in iChat and iMovie.
iMac works fine in iChat, just not iMovie.
Two of the Mini's have iSights that work fine.
I think i will test my sight with the one Mini that doesn't have a sight.
I don't think it's the sight.
I think it's something to do with Tiger 10.4.4 and G5 iMac's. Maybe something to do with the different versions of iMac (i.e. 2.0 iMac, 2.1 iMac and Intel iMac)
We know that 2.1 and Intel imac's iSight's don't work with iMovie (built-in iSights) so if i returned to 10.4.3 which i don't really want to do then i may get it back.
I will test sight with Mini and let you know.
If you or your friends have any more thoughts on this problem please write again.
Bye for now.
Neil.

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Welcome to Discussions, DearOlivejuice
DearOlivejuice wrote:
I record videos weekly and this recently started happening. After I finish capturing footage from the iSight and play it back I notice that it cuts and skips through the footage. So even though I was recording for 5 minutes only 4 minutes will be there with random bit cut out. It just skips around.
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