ISight Green Screen

My iSight isn't working, out of nowhere I open PhotoBooth and a green screen pops up. When I try to open it in iChat it shows up as black. What are my options for fixing it?

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ISight Green Screen Problem: Temporary SOLUTION

If you have been experiencing a "green screen" with iSight in Photo Booth (and camera not working in other programs...there is a temporary solution.
The solution is to SHUT DOWN your machine (NOT just restart). Turn your machine back on....your iSight will start working agian. Now this may be extremely annoying but the best thing yo u can do is continue to harrass Apple until they release a software update for this problem.
Hope this information helps.

I have a NEW (refurbished) mac!If your Mac is VERY new, you can contact the retailer who sold it to you and ask them to fix it. This is particularly important if you have ANY other problems with your refurb'd unit.
If you want to try on your own first, here are some ideas you can pursue.
If you performed the update to 10.4.6, did you use the Combo Updater and a method like How I Update My Mac OS X? If not, applying the Combo with that technique may help you.
When you got your new Mac, did you erase the hard drive and reinstall the software before you started using it? Over the years, this has become part of my standard practice for assuring Macintosh System Stability.
Finally, in addition to Apple Article 302679, Apple Article 302520 also deals with green screen issues. You can check that.
Jim

ISight green light is on, Photobooth shows green screen

Yeah, I started up my computer today and for some reason the camera light is on but I'm not even using it. I tried opening Photobooth so that I could quit it, and maybe the camera would go off, but Photobooth just shows a blank, green screen.
Anyone got any solutions?

Hey,
I had this issue awhile back too, I had no idea what caused it. I'm not sure if this is a real fix but I ran AHT(Apple Hardware Test) and it didn't find any issues, but after the test completed I booted up into OS X and everything was fine.
Intel-based Macs: Starting up into Apple Hardware Test
I have no idea if this is an actual real fix, but you can give it a try.
Heres a forum thread with the same issue: iSight Problem
Good Luck!
Tom
(P.S. Give the SMC reset a try also: Macbook SMC Reset

Isight problem-green screen have to restart every time

I have a macbook white 512 ram tiger 10.4.9 but isight sometimes starts up on and when i open photobooth it is green screen.. i have to restart to get it off how do i fix this problem? is it a hardware/software issue? is there a patch to fix it? is it normal? iwant it fixed

I had the same problem ( green scree for camera). gave it for in store repair .
camera and some other components were changed .
It took 4 days to get laptop back
problem resurfaced after 3 weeks along with screen flicker .
gave it for repair ( second time)
this time its in repair depot for almost 2 weeks waiting on part.( logic board)
still waiting to get my laptop back .I will update once I get it back

Built-in iSight cam randomly stopped working. All I get is a green screen!

I used it just yesterday with both Photobooth and iChat with no problems what so ever. Now all it shows is a green screen! Anybody know what the problem may be and how to fix it??? Thanks!
-Jonathon

Welcome to Discussions, -Jonathon
Here are the solutions that help most users who encounter green-screen problems. None are complicated, but the only way to find which one will work for you is to try them one-by-one until you find the one that fixes your Mac.
(1) Check your System Preferences as explained in this kbase article about Built-in iSight camera produces blue or green pictures.
(2) If your System Preferences are set correctly, try every suggestion re: Built-in iSight in the "How to Troubleshoot iSight" article.
Be sure to include the checks for whether the problem is "application-specific" and "user-specific".
If you need help creating a new user account to check whether your problem is "user-specific" during Troubleshooting, see this Help article.
(3) If resetting or the other suggestions do correct your problem, try the following:
• Backup your Home Folder, or at very least, your important files.
• Repair permissions. (Click here if you need help.)
• Then download and apply the Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update v1.1 (iNtel).
• Finish with another Permissions Repair, and then check your iSight again.
Users have reported fixes to a variety of audio, video, connectivity, and software conflicts and unreliability issues after properly applying Combo Updates.
(4) A few iNtel Mac laptop users have also reported success after unplugging their Macs and leaving the battery out for half-an-hour to overnight.
(5) If none of these suggestions help, contact Apple or your Apple-Authorized Service Provider for a professional check.
EZ Jim
PowerBook 1.67 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.10) G5 DP 1.8 External iSight

Green Screen (Built in Isight)

Whenever I open a application with isight the screen is just green.

Hi mm1221,
First of Check System Preferences > Displays is set to Millions.
Check no other application such as a Game is running that might drop the colour setting.
If that does not work start with Shutting down the computer and then restarting holding the Apple key + ALT + P + R Keys all at the same time until you hear 4 "Bongs" of the Apple Start up tone.
2:15 PM Saturday; December 30, 2006
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'Green Screen' Special Effects with iSight & iMovie?

I need to record a short (30 - second) movie of just me talking. I thought I would record it with my iSight camera & Quicktime.
If I use a green screen. . .can I swap in a different background in iMovie? If I can, does anyone have a good idea for a home-made green screen? (thought maybe I would just go to the art store and get a piece of green posterboard unless anyone has a better idea)
TIA,
Larry

Hello Larry,
"Green screen" recording is a function that is built into my Sony camcorders. Sony calls it "superimposing." Because it is easy to use the built-in function, I use my camcorders for all my superimposed video work.
You can read about how it works on a Sony camcorder in pages 118 through 120 of this Operating Instructions manual. If you have a camcorder, yours may have the function, too, although it might have a different name if your camcorder is not a Sony.
I do not know how to do with in QuickTime Pro. If you get no better answer here and cannot find the answers in the QT Pro Tutorial or Help pages, try searching or posting this question in the QuickTime for Mac OS Forum.
Jim

Why iSight have green screen on mac os and works fine in windows.BootCamp?.

hi, it seems like its a common but or some like that but yes, my iSight does have a green screen just after updating from mac os 10.4.6 to 10.4.7, weirdo thing is that when i boot to windows partition, iSight works well (poor image quality) but works....
is there a new driver for iSight? or is there a permanent fix on that green screen?
thank in advance...
Aldo

Here's some trouble shooting tips for the built in iSight: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93240

Macbook pro ( v 10.6.2, 2.53 GHz) iSight green light constantly on from startup (even before the grey startup screen).

The iSight green light seems to always be turned on on my macbook pro. I've tried rebooting, but the light comes one even before the grey startup screen comes up. The camera works fine in Photobooth etc, full picture, unlike all of the other posts. I already reset PRAM, and it didn't work. The laptop was recently refurbished. Thanks! Any help would be appreciated.

See this article.
I don't think it's a RAM problem. It's really a corrupted file or a damaged hard drive.

Isight and green screen

please help, i got my macbook last monday and the isight and photo booth was working fine. i don't know if this is an indicator of anything but the light to the left of the camera isn't on while the light to the right of it is.
basically when i open photobooth all i get is a green screen. it's able to capture images but just of the plain screen. it doesn't get recognized on yahoo messenger either.
i don't use ichat or classic, so those programs aren't running when i try to access photobooth (besides, photobooth and ym used to be able to work at the same time).
i've tried deleting the plist from the preferences, and i've set the color display to millions. still nothing.
HELP!

Hi I also have just bought a new macbook and had the
same problem. I fixed it by simply shutting down the
computer and then starting it up again, as opposed to
actually 'restarting' the thing. Please let me know
if this works for you or anyone else.
Thank you for the suggestion. I did just that, and somehow, the camera was working fine. At first I restarted using the restart function, but this didn't work. What works is shutting down completely and manually turning the computer back on.
On another note, I think I experienced a random shut down yesterday. A menu popped up asking me (in several languages) to restart my computer. So I did just that. Mac OS X acknowledged the unexplained shut down, but provided no reason for it. I hope it doesn't happen again!

Isight camer gives green screen in photo booth, black in ichat.

imac g5 insight Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I have an intel 20" imac and was going to install bootcamp. I have updated the firmware and now have the same issue with the photo booth green screen. I can see my camera in imovieHD and recorded videoitw hout any problem.
I have decided not to proceed with the actual bootcamp until I find the reason for this, and to check nothing else has happened.

The dreaded "green screen"

This is really bizarre, and I'm very confused as to why this is happening. iChat is allowing audio to go through, but the built in iSight is not working. When I open Photo Booth, all I get is the green screen. I downloaded the update Apple suggested, and still, no luck. The weird thing is the camera works fine on Yahoo! Messenger for Mac...any suggestions?

Hi David,
If Jan's suggestions does not work they try deleting com.apple.ichat.plist in /Users/(your Account)/Library/Preferences and restarting ichat
Also check that System Preferences > Displays is set to Millions
7:31 PM Sunday; February 4, 2007

ISight - Green Scree, not connected/in use - Works in windows... not in osx

Sorry to create ANOTHER thread here, but no one has seemed to mention this yet.
I got my macbook pro 4 days ago (first mac!) and i love it!
On opening it up, had a bit of a blast around, then tried photobooth and was greeted with the No camera, or camera in use message.
Lovely! rebooted, still the same, checked in the sys profiler and it wasnt even appearing as a device (should be under usb).
I tried many things to fix it, Resetting NVRAM and Power Cycling, nothing working...
I got fed up with fixing it and installed bootcamp.
After installing the drivers i loaded the camera in XP... and it worked!
Jumping back into osx, i see that the camera is now reconised by the system (under USB in the system profiler) but every program that can access it is either displaying green or black.
I read that bootcamp had updated isight drivers, so i checked my version... wich is 1.84
the latest drivers supplied with bootcamp are 1.82??
perhaps this is the problem? even a fresh install of osX did not get the cam working! odlly... only windows managed it!
I love this machine, its great! wish it 'just worked'
i was thinking i will try extracting the isightdrivers.pkg from the bootcamp installer and see if i can downgrade!
I may just take it in to an apple shop though... ive only had it 4 days!
also Apple didnt forward on my house number to the couriers (they had it, it was the billing address!), so the package wasnt delivered, the courier just put it through as 'unable to collect'... then the courier didnt re-schedule my delivery when i asked them to so i had to go pick it up!!!!!! - not impressed apple!
iSight could be a driver problem! Has anyone else who has the green screen probs found that the isight works in windows?
The iSight on mine hasnt worked once in Osx! It annoys me though that its working in windows... i dont like software problems i cant fix...
Macbook Pro 2.16 / 2gb / 120Gb / 128mb Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to Apple Discussions, MrNibbles
You did well in creating your thread - a perfect use of Apple Discussions.
As explained in the Apple Discussions Help pages, Apple Discussions is a user-to-user support forum.
Therefore, your comment that you are "not impressed apple!" with your Apple Store service regarding delivery may be better addressed via item "9." on the right side of this page
http://www.apple.com/support/store/
This method will allow you to send written comments about your problem directly to Apple. I know that contacting Apple now cannot undo the fact that you needed to travel rather than having your parcel delivered, but your message will get directly to Apple if you use the web mail page.
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Your new Mac certainly ought to work properly out of the box. You sound like an experienced computer user. It is unfortunate that you are having problems with your new Mac's iSight. I do not have an iNtel Mac, but, if you get no better suggestions here, here are a couple of ideas you can consider.
Have you tried Apples suggestions re: the Built-in iSight in How to Troubleshoot iSight?
If your OS X System Profiler still does not recognize your (USB) built-in iSight after trying those suggestions, I think you are wise to follow your instinct to "take it in to an apple shop".
If the trek to your "apple shop" is an inconvenience for you, and if you have not already done so, you might want to try a software reinstall.
Back up any important data you have already accumulated, and then use the "Restore" Software disk that came with your new Mac to zero your hard drive. Finally, reinstall the software and finish with a Permissions Repair.
Once you have performed a known-good installation of all software, you should never need to reinstall again. There are no guarantees, but a fresh install might save you a trip.
Jim
Mac OS X (10.4.9) G5 DP 1.8 External iSight

ISight green light on, but not working.. PLEASE HELP!!

HELP PLEASE! My built in iSight green light is on, which means the camera on... but when i try to use it in iMovie, it is a blank white screen and when I try to use photo booth, its a blank green screen. Tried restarting the computer, did not help. Someone please give me some advice! Thanks!!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/6.0/en/imv1135.html

Photo Booth Effects Fuzzy Like a Bad Green Screen

Just wondering about the background effects in Photo Booth & how they work. I know you're supposed to step out of frame and then back in. Ive tried this several times now in different rooms in my house and I never get a solid background. It's always fuzzy/broken up kind of like a bad green screen effect. So just wondering if I'm doing something wrong or that's just how it works.
I am using Lion.

"Is there something wrong with my built-in iSight on my MacBook Pro? "
Nope!
Use as plain a real background behind you as you can. The busier the background, the harder it is for your Mac to tell you from the background.
Have as much light behind you and in front of you as possible. I found that lighting is a huge key to making the effect work well. If possible use hologen lights. The brighter your room, the better BE works. Matter of fact, your BE picture will be perfect.
DO NOT wear the colors green and/or blue.
Good luck & much fun!

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