Problems Recording Video with Photo Booth

Macbook Details:
OS X Yosemite
Version 10.10.2
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)
Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Photo Booth: Version 7.0 (724)
Some background: It all started going downhill for my laptop when I got a "Service Battery" warning back in December. Thought it could possibly be a glitch from the new OS. In any case, they told me to wait it out till the Full Charge Capacity reaches the 2000s. It's currently at around 4225 and slowly steadily decreasing. I can't keep many applications open at one given time.
The problem: Built-in camera is working fine with Skype, FaceTime, etc. Photo Booth pictures are fine as well. Simply unable to record any video with PB. It will sometimes record, but during recording, the image freezes. Upon playback, the image is frozen for the entire video, and audio lags or skips around. Today it froze and actually sat frozen all day while I continued to use other applications.
Is there anything I can do??

You can't record video with PhotoBooth, you can record video with iMovie, or you can record with Quicktime if you have the Pro version. I would suggest using iMovie, create an MPEG-4 project, record your footage, drag your recorded clips into the timeline, then choose the Share menu and choose Email.
Baby footage will be on its way to the grandparents in no time!

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In the bottom-left corner of the Photo Booth window, just above the slides where it shows all your recent pictures, there are three buttons.
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Hello Austin.
How do you know when it saved?
Another of Photo Booth's limitations. I do not see anything in Photo Booth that guarantees when a save is complete.
You may be able to hear when your hard disk stops writing. If you cannot hear it, just don't be in a hurry. Wait until the movie clip Thumbnails has finished settling into the tray at the bottom of the Photo Booth window. Then give it about five more seconds to allow the disk write to finish before starting the next recording.
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Can imovie use the background drop?
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iMovie 6 HD can produce composites by using blue and green screen effects and the appropriate third-party plugins to edit video clips after the video clips have been captured. I do not know a way to do this with iMovie 7.x (sometimes called iMovie '08).
A Google search for iMovie blue and green screen effects will lead you to this tutorial and many other sources that you may find helpful.
If you already have Apple's Final Cut Express or Final Cut Studio, the chroma key feature is built into both of them.
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I had the same problem since my moutain lion update, too.
I fixed it in the following way.
-Search for utilities on the HELP option on the top taskbar
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- check your input and output properties
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EZ Jim
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dolbinau is right! You need Leopard to use Photo Booth 2.
If you want to keep Tiger and still record video with "effects", take a look at WebcamTweaker
EZ Jim
PowerBook 1.67 GHz w/Mac OS X (10.4.11) G5 DP 1.8 w/Mac OS X (10.5.1) External iSight
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