ISight - Photo Booth stops recording silently when recording video.

Hello,
I often use iSight and Photo Booth to record videos, and I've observed this error happens all the times:
For example I record a 5 minutes video, (I stop Photo Booth at the time 5:00), but then when I look again at the file, it's less than 5 minutes. This happens 8 out of 10 times of recording, and it stops silently at a random time, means photo booth does not return to the waiting mode until I press the stop button.
Does anyone have this problem? Please help. Thanks in advance.

I must agree I am having a very similar problem myself. In my case, for example, I use photobooth to record videos requiring audio and video (acoustic guitar) and I will record one video which will be fine with audio, but randomly, the next video I record will not have any audio whatsoever, just a video of me playing my guitar. I'm sure other people with this problem know how frustrating it is, especially since I just tried to record an instrumental piece about 13 minutes only to find that photobooth randomly decided not to record audio this time....is there any solution for this?

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I'm seeing the following error and tried to Repair disk permissions and still won't work.
Error: Photo Booth encountered an error when trying to save your photos. Your photos cannot be saved at this time.
I believe this is happening after I tried to run this command "sudo chown -R your_username /Users/your_username/Pictures" as instructed by apple support (If Photos can’t copy or create a library - Apple Support) for the Photos app when I saw this issue: "Photos was unable to make a copy of your library before preparing it. Photos does not have the necessary permissions..." which never got resolved either.
Is there anyway to reset the Photo Booth settings?

Back up all data before proceeding.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Triple-click anywhere in the following line on this page to select it:
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
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Hi! I'm using a Macbook Pro, and my photo booth stopped working! I just updated my software yesterday, but it still doesn't work!! The green light does go on though, any suggestions on how to make it work?

Hi! I'm using a Macbook Pro, and my photo booth stopped working! I just updated my software yesterday, but it still doesn't work!! The green light does go on though, any suggestions on how to make it work?

In what way is it not working?
Please describe in detail all you have attempted to do in order to resolve the issue.

How do I fix this? Photo Booth encountered an error when trying to save your photos. Your photos cannot be saved at this time.

Photo Booth encountered an error when trying to save your photos. Your photos cannot be saved at this time.
How do i fix this?

I had the same issue, as suggested by others on similar question I checked my permissions and they were fine.
This worked for me
1) First saved the photos from my current Photo Booth library
2) Deleted the photo booth library folder
3) Created a new admin user
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5) You can then delete the new user you created.
*this is my first attempt here, so my bad if its not up to scratch*

Photo Booth encountered an error when trying to save your photos. Your photos cannot be saved at this time.

Photo Booth encountered an error when trying to save your photos. Your photos cannot be saved at this time.
prev suggestion was to remove file: com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist.
still not working and I Am running;
OS X version 10.9.1

I had the same issue, as suggested by others on similar question I checked my permissions and they were fine.
This worked for me
1) First saved the photos from my current Photo Booth library
2) Deleted the photo booth library folder
3) Created a new admin user
4) Copy the photo booth library from the new user and paste it in your user (where the previous photo booth library was)
5) You can then delete the new user you created.
*this is my first attempt here, so my bad if its not up to scratch*

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but when i stop the recording, only about fraction of what i wanted will be there.
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candacefrommontreal wrote: why does photo booth cut my videos short?...
Because you ********* * ***.
All you have to do to make it work is **** ** ******* ****.
Or: http://discussions.apple.com/message/13305215#13305215
Message was edited by: EZ Jim

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Hello,
I have a Rode Stereo Videomic plugged into a griffin Imic which is plugged into the line in port on the back of my Imac.
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on top of that. I have to unplug and replug the Imic into my computer every time I open garage band in order to detect it.
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AndrewGthethird wrote:
when I record a track. I can see that it recorded, but when I try to play it I can't hear it.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#usecomputersspeakers
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
AndrewGthethird wrote:
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http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#selectinterface
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candacefrommontreal wrote: why does photo booth cut my videos short?...
Because you ********* * ***.
All you have to do to make it work is **** ** ******* ****.
Or: http://discussions.apple.com/message/13305215#13305215
Message was edited by: EZ Jim

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That Article says it has been modified and it also quotes a Apple Doc Reference number but the Modified Date is the same day as iChat 4 came out.
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howvogue wrote:
I downloaded some application for a hellokitty digi cam.
Now my photo booth wont open and my isight claims to be in use by another application.
I have tried deleting everything that could possibly be associated with the digital camera but nothing seems to work. how can I restart photo booth and get my camera to work?!
Welcome to Discussions, howvogue
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In that case go to you Home Folder > Library > Preferences and delete the com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist and try Photo Booth again
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ISight - Photo Booth stops recording silently when recording video.

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