Photo Booth Audio Problem

Hi all,
am currently running lion 10.7.5
i have an assignment to submit with video and audio recording.
It has always worked fine recording video and audio but this time photo booth just stopped working.
Usually i have logic pro and photo booth running at the same time, photo booth for the video, logic to record the audio, then i put them together later.
However now photo booth is unable to record videos.
Taking photos is still possible, the green light is still there.
But clicking record video the timer will stay put at 00:00:00
After i stopped the recording it's a black video of 0 seconds.
I'm using a external audio interface.
I would like to mention again that it has always worked fine.
i checked the audio settings, the audio midi settings, all are fine.
when i switched audio input and output to internal mic and default output,
recording videos worked again.
however my logic is unable to produce any output at all.
i cannot run these two simultaneously anymore.
even if logic input and output is set to my audio interface and photo booth set to default output, it still doesn't work.

I even restarted the laptop many times.
I reset the SMC and the PRAM but to no avail.
I cleared photobooth's plist and it still does not work.
i'm sure it's not my external audio interface problem as there was no driver update prior to this problem

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