ISight recording will not be added to iMovie

I'm having great trouble with iSight recording. When I'm done with the recording, and press "stop", it will not upload the sequence to iMovie. In addition, the picture often freeze or is just black so I have to try many times.
Any clue why this is so?

Welcome to Discussions, idalexa
idalexa wrote:
I'm having great trouble with iSight recording. When I'm done with the recording, and press "stop", it will not upload the sequence to iMovie. In addition, the picture often freeze or is just black so I have to try many times.
Any clue why this is so?
Not enough information to diagnose "why." However, until you get better suggestions, here are some things you can try in any order that seems reasonable for your system.
(1) Sometimes merely restarting the Mac gets things going. Also, if too many apps are running, you may have problems with the significant processing demands of capturing and writing video to disk. It might even be helpful to turn off your airport card to be sure your MBA is not trying to use other apps like checking for Mail or making a Time Machine backup while you are trying to capture video.
Also, be sure you are not trying to simultaneously use more than iSight application.
Restart your MBA and quit any login items that may be running before launching iMovie. Then make a short test video to see if it works properly. If so, make several other short test clips to see if the improved results are repeatable.
(2) Be sure you have lots (I like 40GB or more) of available disk space. If your disk has too little space, disk writing will place additional demands on your Mac. If necessary, backup important info you can do without and move or delete some of your user data to create more free space. Then restart and test iMovie/iSight again.
(3) If you are concerned that the problem may be related to your iSight, use Apple's troubleshooting suggestions http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 to see if the problem is the same in other apps or user accounts.
EZ Jim
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