Is ichat software required for stand alone isight camera to work?

Trying to use an isight stand alone camera with a new mac mini. It will sometimes take a random picture in Phto Booth but I really can't get it to do anything in Photo Booth , Face time, or imovie. In support it says that you have to have iChat on your computer to allow the camera to work in other applications. I don't have iChat and I can't find it as a download.
I would appreciate any information on this.

explasticman wrote:... I ...try the iSight on my wife's Macbook Pro... It works...
Good work on the troubleshooting. You have now ruled out possible connection problems except for possible problems with your new mini's FW800 port. If you have or can borrow another FW device, you can try connecting it to your mini with the same cables and adapter to verify that mini's port is working.
explasticman wrote: ... It now seems like it must have to do with 10.8.5 on my new computer....
If you still believe this, use your Mac's  > Software Update... menu command and apply any needed updates.
I suggest you restart Mac and use Disk Utility to repair permissions before downloading and installing the (3 October) OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8.5 (Combo) update. Repair permissions AGAIN immediately following the restart that completes the Combo Update.
If your problem continues, use OS X Recovery to reinstall Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Then use  > Software Update… to verify that all your software is up to date. Install any needed updates and repair permissions one more time regardless of whether additional updates are required after reinstalling OS X.
explasticman wrote: ... Is messages really just like iChat?...
No, not "just like" iChat. However, Messages is the replacement for iChat.
For summary info about Messages, see this linked page. For details, you can read all about Messages and compare it to your iChat experience using your mini's Messages > Help > Messages Help menu command.
explasticman wrote:... I would really like to get thie iSight working ...
If nothing else works, your service options for external iSight are shown
in iSight Service FAQ.
Message was edited by: EZ Jim
Mac OSX 10.8.5

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Solution to "Software required for communicating with the iPod is not installed"!
I battled this same problem for about 5 hours. Going through re-installations, the "5 R's", all these discussion boards. Nothing worked.
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Hopefully this helps!
Apple support people: assuming this works, please add it to your solutions page, and feel free to reimburse me for spending half of Christmas figuring this out.
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SOLUTION to "Software required for communicating with the iPod is not insta

Folks, I can not take credit for this.....you should send your checks to MarkinMadison. I've included his post in it's entirety. For me, this was the Holy Grail !!
My only comment is make sure when you are in the registry that you hit the "apply" button to change and add things.
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Apple: please find out who MarkinMadison is and either cut him a big check or offer him free Ipods for life.
"Solution to "Software required for communicating with the iPod is not installed"!
I battled this same problem for about 5 hours. Going through re-installations, the "5 R's", all these discussion boards. Nothing worked.
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Here is what worked.
1. De-install iTunes and iPod (if you have the updater installed) completely by going to Start --> Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs. Also delete the C:\Program Files\iTunes and c:\Progam Files\iPod\bin directories. (Don't worry, this doesn't affect your saved music files.)
2. Log in as an Administrator
3. Go into the registry (note this is dangerous - you should be careful) and remove the iPod entries that the uninstaller misses.
3.1 Go to Start menu --> Run.
3.2 Type in "regedit".
3.3 Go to HKEYCLASSESROOT --> IPodService.iPodManager.
There are two keys here, iPodManager and iPodManager.1. In my case, I did not have permission to view either of these. I think this is the root cause of the problem. I think the installer can't properly update these because it doesn't have permission. So you need to change the permissions:
3.4 Right-click on IPodService.IPodManager
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3.4.2 On the window that launches, click on "Advanced..."
3.4.3 Click on the "Owner" tab.
3.4.4 Select a valid account (the one you're logged in under) under "Change Owner To".
3.4.5 Click the checkbox that says: "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects."
3.4.5 Hit "OK".
3.4.6 Back on the main Permissions window, hit Add and add the same account as a valid user.
3.4.6.1 Where it says "Enter the object names to select", type in the account name, e.g. "Smith".
3.4.7 Click on the "Allow" checkboxes for "Full Control" and "Read".
3.4.8 Hit "OK".
3.5 Repeat procedure for the "iPodManager.1" key.
3.6 Now right-click and delete both of these keys.
3.7 If you can't delete, you might need to open up the keys and repeat the procedure on the sub-keys.
4. Exit out of the registry editor.
5. Re-install iTunes. I re-installed iTunes and reconnected the iPod, and everything worked.
I want to repeat that editing the registry can completely mess up your computer if you modify the wrong things, so only do this if you're comfortable, and be extremely careful.
Hopefully this helps!
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Mark"
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