How do I prevent the mirror-effect in video recordings in Photo Booth?

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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 the writing is reversed. How do I get the camera to be a normal non-mirror camera?

score 21 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 04 '20 at 09:54

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Record using QuickTime.

I was having same problem and rather than change PhotoBooth to flip all images, I use one app to record people making fun faces and another for lectures.

edited Aug 04 '20 at 09:54

cubuspl42

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answered Dec 28 '12 at 06:44

Billy Sticker

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Thanks! Note you don't have to record in QuickTime, just choose 'New Movie Recording' from the File menu and it will preview the camera without recording. – Jay Jul 11 '20 at 16:44

score 19 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '12 at 03:33

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In the menu bar click Edit, then "Auto Flip New Items". After you do that, the photos and videos you take will capture what the camera sees, and not reverse it.

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answered Apr 03 '12 at 03:33

Kyle Cronin

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Does this affect the on-screen live preview? It didn't for me... it's still reversed. – LarsH Sep 24 '15 at 19:48
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@LarsH Weirdly, auto-flipping videos doesn't seem to work for me in Yosemite. It still works for photos - the preview is mirrored, but the resulting image is flipped back. – Kyle Cronin Sep 24 '15 at 21:29
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Unfortunately, this works only for photos. – Ivan Yurchenko Oct 15 '16 at 20:37
Answer by Billy Sticker is great workaround (not using Photo Booth). – cellepo Nov 16 '18 at 21:51
This doesn't work. – worc Oct 13 '22 at 22:57

Simon Guest · Answer 3 · 2013-02-10T17:31:50.427

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I had exactly this problem for a presentation, so wrote a app called QCamera which supports both mirrored and normal capture. You can download it for free from the Mac App Store.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id598853070?mt=12

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answered Feb 10 '13 at 17:18

Simon Guest

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Thank you for this. I had a presentation to give tonight in which I was showing a live (not recorded) webcam feed on a big external monitor. I couldn't do it in PhotoBooth without it being reversed. I downloaded QCamera and it worked like a charm. – LarsH Sep 25 '15 at 02:11
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You should have said, "I wrote this app just to answer this question" – redolent Aug 01 '18 at 00:51
Thank you! I spent an hour trying to get VLC to do this without lagging and stuttering - this worked right away. – Fred Hamilton Sep 30 '19 at 18:56
Alas, it doesn't seem to work well with other applications. E.g. It won't fix the problem in Skype. – Sherwood Botsford Jan 18 '20 at 23:47

How do I prevent the mirror-effect in video recordings in Photo Booth?

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