Internal iSight not working in iMovie HD

Internal iSight works in Photobooth but not iMovie HD. I move the toggle over to the recorder icon and no drop down menu appears and "no camera attached" is displayed across the blue screen.
I have read a number of posts here and suggestions. So far:
-Repairing disk permissions has not helped
-iSight shows up on the USB tree in System Profiler
-I have added other user accounts and the problem occurs there too
-I have reset the SMC
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Welcome to Apple Discussions, BostonG5
Here are the next things you should try.
(1) Check your iMovie HD version. As explained in Using iSight with iMovie, iMovie HD 6 or later is needed with built-in iSight.
(2) If you are using iMovie HD 6, verify that you have tried every relevant suggestions from Apple's How to Troubleshoot iSight.
(3) Verify that you are clicking in the right place. The drop-down menu does not appear until you click on the small triangle in front of the camera iCon as shown in this picture:
(4) If iMovie is the ONLY app that is having this iSight problem, your iMovie preferences file may be corrupted. Quit all applications. Then throw away the iMovie Preferences file (com.apple.iMovie.plist) from your Home (user) / Library / Preferences folder.
A new preferences folder will be generated when you restart iMovie to test whether it works now, but you will need to reset any preference settings you want different from the default values.
EZ Jim
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