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Using your isight camera with imovie hd – Apple iMac (Early 2006) User Manual

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Chapter 3

Using Your iMac

To use a picture as your buddy picture or account picture:

1

Open Photo Booth and take a picture.

2

Select the picture you’d like to use as your buddy or account picture.

3

Click the Buddy Picture or Account Picture icon to automatically update your picture.

More information about Photo Booth is available in Mac Help. Choose Help >

Mac Help, then choose Library > Photo Booth Help.

Using Your iSight Camera with iMovie HD

You can capture live video from your built-in iSight camera directly into iMovie HD.

To capture live video:

1

Open iMovie HD by clicking its icon in the Dock (or choose Applications > iMovie HD).

2

Click the mode switch to set iMovie HD to built-in camera mode.

3

Click the camera icon to the left of the mode switch and choose Built-in iSight from the

pop-up menu.

4

Click the “Record With iSight” button in the iMovie monitor to begin recording.

The video you see in the iMovie monitor is recorded as a clip in the iMovie Clips pane.

5

Click the “Record With iSight” button again to stop recording.

You can record video as long as your iMac has enough disk space to hold it.

More information about iMovie HD is available in Mac Help. Choose Help > Mac Help,

then choose Library > iMovie HD Help from the menu bar.

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