Photobooth/iMovie recordings with isight+mic

Greetings,
When recording voiceover with mic and video from the built in isight on my macs there's always a weird "continuos" bad audio recording sound. (whistling) If I just do a quick screen recording it disappears. This also happens if I record video inside photobooth.
Is this just a behavior of using the mic and video together for cheap recording quality and voice over or can this be fixed?

I get it too. The workaround seems to be to use a line-in mic.
You might get an answer if you post this under 'iMovie' rather than the OS section.

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