Stop Photo Booth from 'timing out' and freezing

Hi,
Is there a way one can prevent Photo Booth from 'timing out'?
When one launches Photo Booth, one sees a preview of what the camera can see. If one switches to another window, then after around 30 seconds this preview 'stops'. To resume the preview, one must click on the application again to make it the active window.
Is there a workaround to prevent this from happening?
Alternatively, are there any pieces of software which show me what my camera can see which do not 'stop' after a small amount of time? I realise that Photo Booth was not written with this use in mind, so I can understand the limitation.
With Windows, there was a plethora of applications which served this purpose, but I'm not familiar with the Mac alternatives. I used a piece of software called 'CamViewer' on Windows, however running the camera in a virtual machine just to get this functionality would be an inconvenience to me.
Thank you for your help with this,
Joseph.

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