Photo Booth Video Recording

I am a teacher who used PhotoBooth to create portfolios with my students.  In SL, we were able to use a picture of the student's paper as a background effect while the student spoke about it while PhotoBooth recorded.  Now with the upgrade to Lion, the effect background is there before recording, but disapears when PhotoBooth starts to record.  Is there a glitch???  Am I doing something wrong or can this be fixed soon!  I'd hate to have boaring videos for the portfolios.

Mountain Lion upgrade fixed the problem.

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    HI,
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    Welcome to Apple Discussions, C Dot MooDy
    is anyone else having this problem?
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    Welcome to Discussions, benvoice
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    Because you ********* * ***.
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  • Audio not working in Photo Booth, video works fine

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  • No ichat or photo booth video visible.

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