Photo Booth on Power Mac G5 using external DV camera

Hi all, I just upgraded to Leopard and I love it. One thing I'm trying to do is to run Photo Booth using firewire 400 and my camcorder Canon XH A1. I got the video going pretty much right a way, however, when I try to record I get no sound. I also had my external mic that is connected to my mac via USB turned on while recording and no result.
Can anyone recommend any solution to this?
Also, I've noticed that my photo booth does not have video backgrounds and dropped backgrounds options, like you'd see on some of the newer macs. I assume it's because I'm not an intel based machine. However, is there a work around that to get those backgrounds?
Thank you all

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