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# AVCaptureSceneMonitoringStatus

An informative status about the scene observed by the device.

```
struct AVCaptureSceneMonitoringStatus
```

## Overview

Some features have certain requirements on the scene (lighting condition for Cinematic Video, for example) to produce optimal results; these [`AVCaptureSceneMonitoringStatus`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptureSceneMonitoringStatus) string constants are used to represent such scene statuses for a given feature.

## Topics

### Status values

[`notEnoughLight`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptureSceneMonitoringStatus/notEnoughLight)

The light level of the current scene is insufficient for the current set of features to function optimally.

### Initializers

[`init(rawValue:)`](/documentation/AVFoundation/AVCaptureSceneMonitoringStatus/init(rawValue:))


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