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CyphrCam is built around one idea:
To preserve the flow state of the movement artist.
This video walks through five features, from using the app as a background music player, to Blackout Mode, to the drafts system; all designed to keep you in the creative zone longer.
- Use Cypher as a background music player. Listen to your tracks just like Spotify. When inspiration hits, tap the song in the control center and you’re instantly ready to dance to it — within seconds.
- Mini player while recording. Adjust playback, skip tracks, go backwards, pause, and play without stopping your session. Every button press auto-overlays the music so you never have to stop moving to change a song.
- Remote control via AirPods or Apple Watch. Skip songs and control playback remotely so you never have to interrupt your movement or touch your phone.
- Blackout Mode. Turns off the screen while you’re recording so you can focus internally on your movement instead of looking at the camera while you’re dancing.
- Drafts. Save your session without making editing decisions immediately. You can leave a note, see all the tracks you danced to, and come back to it later.
Full Transcript
Okay, flow state philosophy. This is something that I started to, I think, accidentally fall into as I’ve been developing the tool.
Initially, I just wanted it to be for dancing, headphones and auto-sync the music. Um, but as I started working on the tool more and more as a movement artist for the past 20 years. Um, and within the past year of learning how to code and build it. I realized that there are a lot of different ways to really, preserve, uh, my flow state as I’m dancing and as I’m trying to create something or really excavate something within, uh, my practice.
And so the philosophy, um, has crystallized a little bit more in that the whole philosophy of the app and every design choice, every button, every animation is designed to preserve and nurture the flow state of the movement artist. So every feature is designed to, to help you harness that flow state and have creative breakthroughs more often. And the way it does this is through, um, five things, um, at the time of making this video.
So the first thing is that you can use Cypher as a music player. Alright, so you can use, um, the music player tool, like the music selection tool. You can use it to upload music and actually listen to it in the background, um, just like Spotify. to find. And if you’re listening to your music and you get inspired to move, you can click on the song so you can, um, swipe down from the control center here.
I’ll just show this to you. Let me open up Cypher. So this is Cypher. And if I click the music tool, I can play music like this. I can swipe up. And then I can still use it. Like, I can. I can still vibe to music. And then when I swipe down from the right, if I click the song, it’ll take me directly to the position of that song. So it’s ready to dance to, uh, within a few seconds. Um, so that’s one of the features that I used. Like, you can use it as a music player so that if you’re vibing to music and you’re like, oh, I have a burst of inspiration listening to this track right now. Now you can click it and then instantly be able to dance to it.
The second thing is use the mini player while recording. So this is an optional toggle in the settings. If you go right here where it says music player. Um, it says show mini player while recording. This should be automatically toggled on for new users. Um, and then when you start recording, let me turn this down. Let me start recording. You have the ability to adjust the, it’s the playback. You can skip tracks. You can go backwards. You can pause. You can play. And every single, um, button that you’re pressing, it’s basically, uh, auto overlaying the music in the background.
And every single thing that you do, it’s like kind of editing the music in the background. So this allows you to stay in a flow state to where you just never have to edit the music. You can get some multiple songs at once. And, um, umm. And you in the next one. Not have to stop everything that you’re doing to change the song. So really lean into that. And this helps you again stay in that flow state.
If you’re not feeling the song, you can also, uhm, use your AirPods or an Apple Watch and you can skip the song. You can just the playback remotely if you have an Apple Watch or if you have an AirPods too.
The next thing, and let me stop recording really quick. There’s a feature called Blackout Mode. So Blackout Mode, it lets you turn off the screen while you’re recording. It’s designed to help you focus internally on your movement instead of looking at the camera while you’re dancing. So, uh, yeah, you’ll see Blackout Mode in the settings. You can click Screen Off or Screen On while recording. You can change when it, when it’s time. So, through seconds into your dance or immediate ladle, the screen will t- in Blackout. Let’s put it for three seconds. And then, um, you can also have a recording indicated just so you know that it’s recording when the screen is off for a piece of mind.
And then when I click the button, it’ll turn off in a few seconds. 1, 2, 3. And now it’s black. So, if you’re not focused on looking at the screen, you’re focused internally on your movement. Then I found this to be really helpful, um, in just — just locking in to that dimension with the music, right?
And the last thing is use the drafts feature. So, I’m gonna stop recording. The drafts feature is super important because you don’t have to export your video and make certain editing decisions immediately. You can save it for later and select multiple highlights, uh, from one session so you can save storage space. So, I’ll save this to drafts. Then you can find the drafts feature, uh, right here, back in the settings. So, click drafts and then it’ll be right here.
You can open up more info and you can leave a note on the draft. You’ll also be able to see all the tracks that you dance to and you can easily copy and paste this if you do want to post it later. Um, all the metadata and everything. And you can re-open it like this.
So these are different tools that you can use, um, to help you stay in flow states. I hope this was helpful. And, um, in the next video, and in the next sections, I’ll go over the different tools of Savicam.