Questions tagged [photo-booth]
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PhotoBooth: Export multiple photos at once
It there a user-friendly way to copy multiple photos from PhotoBooth at once?
For some really stupid reason, maybe this is a bug, if you select multiple photos there (e.g., by using Shift-click) and ...
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How do I trim the middle part of a video in Photo Booth?
I want to save the beginning and end portions of a Photo Booth video for export.
In other words, I don't want the middle part.
However, Photo Booth seems to only let me select a single portion to save ...
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Anyone know how to recover this video from PhotoBooth?
I've tried using both VLC and HandBrake to retrieve this video. It says that its duration is 0 mins and 0 seconds but the file size is 205.4 MB. It is a presentation for my speech class anything helps....
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How to export all images and videos from Photo Booth to finder?
Images and videos can be exported from Photo Booth one by one by either
Right-clicking in the file in Photo Booth -> Export, or
Drop and dragging the image/video from Photo Booth into a finder ...
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Light weight, free way to record a video with a blurred background using Mac webcam?
When recording a video, sometimes it's preferable to blur the background, especially when working from home or outside the typical office environment.
I didn't figure out how to blur the background of ...
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How to blur the background in photo booth?
When using photo booth, I see there is an 'Effects' button with many effects like 'Space Alien' and 'Dizzy'.
But if I want to simply blur the background a little, how do I do that?
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Why does my Logitech C920 camera turn off and on again during recording with Photo Booth?
I have a Logitech C920 external webcam connected to my MacBook Air (13 inch, 2020) via a USB Type-C Hub.
I've been using it successfully to record videos using Photobooth until couple of days ago I ...
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How to hide photo bar at bottom of Photo Booth so I can see the extent of the live preview
When I open PhotoBooth, immediately below the live "preview" image there is a strip or bar containing pictures I have already taken. By accident I noticed that this apparently obscured the ...
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Camera not working on MacBook Air 2017 running Catalina 10.15.4
I have just had a problem today on a 2 year old MacBook Air (which is otherwise in perfect order), running Catalina 10.15.4. Basically, I couldn't get the inbuilt camera to switch on (tried Photo ...
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Disable Photo Booth sounds
How do I stop Photo Booth.app making sounds on the countdown and on the capture?
Sounds like a "beep - beep - beep" countdown and a shutter sound for capture.
How do I mute the app?
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macOS: How to take a picture from camera after 1 minute
I normally take pictures using Photo Booth. But I now need to take a picture in which it takes quite a while for me to get into the right position. Once I am in the right position, it is fine, I can ...
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How to recover an incomplete MOV file made in Photobooth?
I was recording a very important video with Photobooth. Unfortunately, near the end, it ran out of file space. So it was recording, and there is a 1 TB MOVE file there, but the end is missing. This ...
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Native Camera app deleted on iPad mini
The native camera app on my iPad mini got deleted somehow. Also, I couldn't find it in the App Store to download. It happened on iOS 10.3. I just now upgraded to iOS 11.
The iPad also had Photo Booth ...
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How to get video from webcam in a "Picture in Picture mode"
While recording a screencast with QuickTime, I want to get video from the webcam in small window overlay. I can use photobooth video preview, but it's always too large and has lots of chrome.
This ...
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How can I record from my Nikon Coolpix S8200 direct to photobooth?
I went to the Nikon site and installed S-VCNXSP-160500MF-ALLIN-ALL, but those are just transfer and editing stuff, I want to record from photobooth the raw live video.
Is it possible?
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Where does Photo Booth store photos and videos?
I want to automatically backup photos and videos from Photo Booth to Google Photos, but don't know where they are stored.
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How to change default path for photo booth?
By default, photo booth save videos in
/Users/UserName/Pictures/Photo\ Booth\ Library
Is there a way to change this default path?
I am on OSX 10.11.5
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Increase delay in Photo Booth app?
I was wondering if there is a way to increase the number of seconds before Photo Booth takes a picture (currently 3 seconds) or if alternatively there is an app I can use with my iSight camera that ...
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Photobooth camera not detected on video effects with USB Camera
I have a logitech c170 USB webcam plugged into my 2012 Mac Mini. The camera works fine on Skype, Facetime, and Photobooth for taking pictures and videos.
However if I try to apply and video effects ...
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Photo Booth freezes for >30s whenever I open it
I've had this problem ever since I upgraded from Mavericks. Whenever I open Photo Booth, the application seems to be stuck on startup and I have to wait for like 50 seconds for it to become useable. A ...
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How long can Photo Booth record video?
Does anyone know how long Photo Booth can record video with iSight camera on Mac? I want to record for a few days non stop, and don't know if that's possible even if there is sufficient space in HD? I'...
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how to record video with mixture of line-in and out?
I want to create a guitar video when I'm playing guitar simultaneously with a track playing. So I want to write mixture of line in and out. Is it possible in Photo Booth? By default, it writes only ...
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Photo Booth/QuickTime-recorded video is out of sync when uploaded to Facebook
Trying to record videos using the built-in camera in my 27" iMac (mid-2011, fully updated Mountain Lion) up until recently got me video that had out-of-sync audio. Once I switched from 32- to 16-bit ...
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Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo?
Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo?
It washes out every picture I take.
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How do I prevent the mirror-effect in video recordings in Photo Booth?
I am trying to record a lecture using Photo Booth on my Macbook but I want to be able to record what the professor has on the board. Unfortunately, photobooth seems to have a mirror image, so that all ...
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Lion Photobooth Pictures
In previous versions of OSX I've been able to take a picture using the Photobooth app and upload it to the internet (by using a website's "choose file" button, navigating to User\Pictures\Photobooth ...
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Where are Photo Booth image files stored in Lion?
On Snow Leopard, photos taken with Photo Booth were stored in ~/Pictures/Photo Booth. They were individual image files that could be opened with any image editor. After updating to Lion, when I go to ~...
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Spotlight and Alfred can't find Photo Booth
For some reason, neither Spotlight nor Alfred can find the Photo Booth app. The app clearly exists in the Applications folder, and it runs fine, but typing in Photo Booth to Spotlight only returns ...
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What is the real native maximum resolution of mid–2010 iMac's iSight camera?
I had understood that the pre-2011 Macs & Apple displays have a built–in iSight camera which sensor is capable of VGA (640 x 480) resolution—unlike the FaceTime HD cameras, which replaced the ...
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