Use the iMac's built-in iSight with iMovie

Dec 22, '05 06:08:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

The iSight camera built into the new iMac cannot be used with iMovie ... or can it?

It seems Apple has simply disabled this, as you can enable it with this trick:

  1. Plug in a FireWire camcorder and open iMovie.
  2. Switch to record mode, as if you are going to import from the camcorder.
  3. Unplug your FireWire camcorder from your iMac.
iMovie will now show the video from your USB iSight, and you can record from the iSight. I'm not sure why Apple disabled this, as it seems to work just fine.

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