The AI stack behind 20M+ views (Full Breakdown)

How can you create short form videos, Instagram reels that gets millions of views with AI? I mean,

if you were able to do that, you could vibe code software, you can build software, and you'd be able to have attention, take that attention and sell your startup. So we all know how important it is to generate followers, likes, comments. But how do you do it? In this episode, I brought on Kova. Kova is well known for getting millions of views on her Instagram short form.

She's worked with the biggest brands on the planet like NVIDIA and Adobe. They call her when they want to create short form video that goes viral. Well, what if I told you that I can share her entire workflow with you? How she uses Manus AI. How she uses FreePick. How she uses Adobe Premiere Pro. How she uses Cloud Code and Obsidian. Well, you're in for a treat because in this episode,

Pro. How she uses Cloud Code and Obsidian. Well, you're in for a treat because in this episode, for the very first time ever, she shares her entire workflow. The stuff that she creates, the video content that she creates is gorgeous. I've seen her videos and I love them. In this episode, we will teach you how to do the same. And people who stick around to the end are going to have

this unfair advantage because building audiences in the AJAI is so important. Enjoy the episode.

It's going to get your creative juices flowing. And I can't wait to see what you end up building.

So we are super lucky to have Kova on the podcast. She is someone who I've seen just completely blow up sharing videos that I think are made with AI, some of it at least. And I asked her to come on the pod for the first time ever. She's going to be sharing her AI workflows with us. Kova,

for the listener of this pod, for the people watching, by the end of this episode, what are people going to learn? Yeah. So by the end of this episode, you guys will first understand how to use tools like, for example, Manus to understand how to create like your favorite creature.

Second, you'll be able to execute two very simple but very powerful workflows that I use for 90 percent of my edits that make all of my videos look super, super, super good, no matter where you film it. and finally I will show you how you can plan your projects in

Obsidian and use an AI tool like Cursor or Cloud Code to be able to quickly build up a project. And

you're in for a treat because this is something that Kova hasn't shared anywhere and I think that people who stick around to the end of this episode they're going to have an unfair advantage. Thank

you Kova for opening the kimonos box and give Kova in this episode a like and comment to fire her up.

She doesn't do this ever. So thank you for sharing the sauce. I appreciate it. Yeah, of course. Yeah,

what is your Manus workflow to take a Kova video and use AI agents to break it down why this is interesting? Can you show this to me? Ooh. I haven't done this in a while, but let me see if

interesting? Can you show this to me? Ooh. I haven't done this in a while, but let me see if I can do this. I think the style of prompt I would use is I really like style I really like the style

and story of this video break it down in terms of one, style and aesthetic keywords I think specific keywords would probably work a lot better for myself and then I would probably go on Pinterest

Then you say Number two Script, transcribe it And separate it into story sections Okay And then I

would just be like I'm not exactly sure What I'm looking for So write down in terms of Overall Okay

give me a plan okay that's smart for how i should replicate it that's really interesting so you're putting like the onus on manis yeah to basically come up with a plan yeah sometimes i like putting the burden of proof on the ai let me try i'm really curious if it does so with twitter videos

and can you walk me through why or just tell me why do you like Madness versus other products or you just find it works well yeah I like Madness because it's probably the closest thing to an actual agent I've used probably like second to OpenClaw from what I've been hearing but for

example if I gave this like Claude or like Claude Code or chat or gemini it would probably not fully like watch the video etc and transcribe it break it down for manis like they would actually run like scripts to probably like like parse the video i i think i've seen like in some of like the

process areas it was talking about like oh like i've i ran this command on the video to extract to extract the transcription etc so it's actually doing everything granularly and doing the task rather than making assumptions, which is what you would get with, you know, something like Claude or

Chat. Yeah, and I think Manish just launched their version of OpenClaw, so basically a hosted version

Chat. Yeah, and I think Manish just launched their version of OpenClaw, so basically a hosted version of OpenClaw. I haven't played with it, but I think it's in beta from what I heard. Amazing. Yeah,

of OpenClaw. I haven't played with it, but I think it's in beta from what I heard. Amazing. Yeah,

I still need to play around with it. I just don't want to give it access to anything without understanding how secure my data will be. Totally. So let's just read what's happening here.

So this is using a computer. It's going onto your Instagram. It's watching some of your videos. It's

observing the Instagram Reel. It's actually a computer watching your stuff. Yeah, exactly.

I'm curious what it does because I think the link was not working. but let's see what it's doing.

It's so funny how it's operating my own browser. I think you can probably see it go like here. Oh

yeah, look. And it's operating my browser here too. That's cool. It always trips me out. Yeah,

super odd. Also, the audio is playing and I'm really peeved. So that's analyzing the Twitter and this is analyzing Instagram. That's cool. Oh wow. okay. So I think I'm going to help it out because I don't think I can find the reel. I was getting confused. Oh, I think I found it. I think I found

it. Yeah, you're right. Okay, that's pretty cool. Because, yeah, I think the link was just wrong,

it. Yeah, you're right. Okay, that's pretty cool. Because, yeah, I think the link was just wrong, but still finding it. Let's just stay here so we can watch. You think our friend Manus needs a little push in the right direction? Let's see. I see. It does. It's not able to actually extract the right video. Okay, so we've given it the direct link. It's accessing it now with the full

URL parameters. I've never tried this before, like telling it to analyze my own content. I'm pretty

URL parameters. I've never tried this before, like telling it to analyze my own content. I'm pretty

curious. Feels weird, right? Yeah. Usually I would, I think I've done it before with like YouTube videos I really liked or like specific reels. Okay. Direct reel URLs being logged into the exact account. However, I've gathered enough from the search results, captions, and thumbnails to do a thorough analysis. That's actually quite interesting. Yeah, I'm surprised that the link

isn't working. I mean, can you upload videos to Madness Direct? I'm pretty sure you can,

isn't working. I mean, can you upload videos to Madness Direct? I'm pretty sure you can, right? Yeah, for sure. So if people wanted... I could do that, yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying,

right? Yeah, for sure. So if people wanted... I could do that, yeah. Yeah, I'm just saying, if people wanted to do that, they don't have to give a link. They can go download a video and upload it. Yeah, but if we see what's happening to the video on Twitter, like, it's downloading the

upload it. Yeah, but if we see what's happening to the video on Twitter, like, it's downloading the video. I think it's doing a transcription. It's looking at all of the frames to kind of understand

video. I think it's doing a transcription. It's looking at all of the frames to kind of understand what is going on. I'm surprised because I remember last time Instagram links worked. Well, things

are constantly changing. Think about it, right? Agents are now getting more and more popular. And

I'm sure the Instagram team is like, we can't have this. What is happening? Yeah, what is happening? But I think this is really interesting, Koba. As a place to start for people, It's like,

happening? But I think this is really interesting, Koba. As a place to start for people, It's like, hey, find creators that you really like in your niche, maybe even outside your niche, and try

to get madness to create a plan for you so that it gives you ideas, vocabulary, and just a mood board for how to create scroll-stopping videos and content. Yeah, exactly. And I'm actually, I was just taking a quick look as you were talking about that. I'm a little bit spooked by how well I

got my process here. Because right now, it just analyzed what I was... Ooh, a set of keywords.

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly my vibe. Okay, so let's just... I'm going to scroll up a little bit. So it says, Video, Breakdown, and Replication Plan. This video operates within a highly specific visual language that blends maker and hacker culture with kawaii nostalgia. Do you

know what that is? Yeah kawaii is like a very cute character et cetera aesthetic originally in Japan That how I not in the niche That how I so out of it Cinematic bedroom aesthetics every element from the typography to the lighting is deliberate and cohesive. Cannot agree more. Overall vibe,

dark academia maker, cozy hacker den, bedroom devlog, personal technosalge. Is that right? Yeah,

that's really, really good. I'm really surprised by it's separated my typography into titles, section headers, and captions. because that's exactly what I do. In my style guide, I have those three things. Be real aesthetic. All of these don't matter too much. You do that. I do all

of these things. The things I actively think about are the first six. Right. But the others are great because I think for myself, it provides a little bit of knowledge about the things I like so I can be probably hyper-dialed in. Oh, here we go. This is the perfect transcript. So, okay, so part two,

script, transcription, and story sections. The video is 65 seconds and follows a clean five-act build log structure. Section one, the hook. This is day one of building a Tamagotchi flash drive.

Here's the idea. This little guy leaves off your files, add files to your drives, and he gets chunkier. No files, he gets sad. Wow. And then it says what it does. It opens the finished

gets chunkier. No files, he gets sad. Wow. And then it says what it does. It opens the finished product with the rainbow Tamagotchi, immediately states the concept of C-section. The hook is visual first. You see the device, that's true. Then verbal, you hear the mechanic. No preamble,

visual first. You see the device, that's true. Then verbal, you hear the mechanic. No preamble,

no intro. This is great. So then it goes into the conflicts and stakes, introduces the creator's personal challenge with zero hardware experience, which creates relatability and stakes. This is

so granular. I'm actually so, because like, for example, like this section is punctuated by VFX shot of retro tech devices. or running around the creator. This was probably a 0.5 second shot. But

they got it. It was really awesome. They got it. The build section. Yeah, I had three steps. Three

steps, circle numbers, nailed it. Then the problem resolution, classic 3B comedic dramatic arc. Too

slow, too fast, just right. Interesting. This is awesome. The way I think about it is I follow the hero's journey, which is pretty much what this is. like you have a hook, you have a hook in context, then you have conflict, then you have like problem solving, et cetera, and then resolution. And then

CTA, which is like a very creative thing to do. But yeah, here I'm just seeding like in the next couple episodes, it will happen. But yeah, it's like a perfect, I'm actually surprised by how good this is. And then part three, it says replication plan. So this is how you could recreate a video

this is. And then part three, it says replication plan. So this is how you could recreate a video in this style for your own project. Define your bit. So the concept hooked. Every great video in this format has a one-sentence concept that is both technically interesting and emotionally resonant. Kova is a flash drive whose character gets chunkier the more files you add.

emotionally resonant. Kova is a flash drive whose character gets chunkier the more files you add.

Before filming anything, write your own version. Thing that does something emotionally resonant based on a technical mechanic. The concept must be explainable in under 10 seconds and have a visual payoff you can show immediately. I actually really love this. I don't follow this myself. I always

use a one-sentence concept thing. That's great. But I've never thought about it in this way, but it sounds like a great direction. Step two, and I'm curious your thoughts on this one too. Film

your talking head segments. Set up, film in a dark room at night, blackout curtains. The background

should have multiple monitors or screens visible, ideally with different content playing. Use RGB

lighting, purple, teal, et cetera. Wear dark and solid clothing. Shoot vertically. Hold

your project or hardware in your hands during talking head shots. It grounds the video in the physical world and gives your hand something to do. Delivery, shorts, punchy sentences, one idea per breath, casual first-person language, bro, chonkier. Write your script in advance, but deliver it conversationally, not recite. What do you think? Well, it's good. It's basically it.

It's very basic, but it's so long. All you can do is just film in a dark room, use RGB lighting. The clothing doesn't really matter. I wear anything. shoot on your phone. Yeah,

lighting. The clothing doesn't really matter. I wear anything. shoot on your phone. Yeah,

this seems pretty basic, but I'm just surprised by how well it got the process. I would just film the talking head separately, and it's my first thing, and then I would shoot all of my B-roll at once. So it says you need three types of B-roll. Step three, use your phone portrait macro mode,

once. So it says you need three types of B-roll. Step three, use your phone portrait macro mode, get extremely close to circuit boards, pins, and wires, screen recordings, use Figma, Photoshop while working on the project, capture the creative process in real time. I think that's cool. Products reveal shots. Film the finished device in a natural light near a window with a

cool. Products reveal shots. Film the finished device in a natural light near a window with a plant or clean surface. This contrast is with the darkroom and signals completion. That's something

that you can do using Adobe Premiere and FreePick and stuff like that too. It's interesting that they have that in there. I really like this. I think the one thing, I would just change screen recording to process shots. Screen recording is one part of the process but if you're working with hardware electronics, you just want to capture builds at key stages. When something's working,

when something stops working, just take a shot of it. And it's just helpful as B-roll down the line.

Step four. For the explainer segments, two options. After Effects. Option A, After Effects in motion. Draw simple line art diagrams and animate them with a glow effect. Option B is CapCut and

motion. Draw simple line art diagrams and animate them with a glow effect. Option B is CapCut and DaVinci. use the neon or glow effect preset on simple shapes drawn in the editor less control

DaVinci. use the neon or glow effect preset on simple shapes drawn in the editor less control but faster oh yeah this is good like option a after effects like i yeah i i use scanline i don't think i use dot matrix but i do use scanline i use pure black background and orange stroke with

the scan line so it's pretty much spot on yeah you maybe add like a glow on top and stuff yeah yeah yeah Step five, design your typography system. You've got a main title card, chunky, rounded, multi-gradient. You've got section headers, and you've got word-by-word captions. Oh, this is

multi-gradient. You've got section headers, and you've got word-by-word captions. Oh, this is great. I do like Fridoka. It's a font I use, but it's not the exact same one. Laura is also good.

great. I do like Fridoka. It's a font I use, but it's not the exact same one. Laura is also good.

Play for Display is also good. This is redundant because it was already covered in the typography style above right here, like top of typography titles. and you would define this before you edit at all but it's good we'll do the last view very quickly create the VFX physicals back shot

so this is the most technically demanding element film yourself against a dark background photograph or source PNG cutouts and then layer the objects on top of talking head footage and cap cut etc animate each object and add a slight motion blur to make them feel physical. Yeah, this is pretty

hard. I intentionally do it so no one can really create a shot like that. So good luck. Step seven,

hard. I intentionally do it so no one can really create a shot like that. So good luck. Step seven,

edit to the script structure, follow the five-act structure, adapting it to your project, hook, conflict, the build, problem resolution, tease and CTA. You talked about that. This is really great.

I really like this. audio and music use a lo-fi slightly nostalgic background track 70 to 90 bpms warm crunchy texture what do you think wow what an interesting way to put a name on

it like the way i did it was just vibes like this feels like the right song to use with it i i used to play Undertale so I just used you know this upbeat 8-bit song but I like describing it as like lo-fi crunchy texture like chiptune adjacent or lo-fi hip-hop like

with 8-bit elements like that's exactly the type of music I would use with something like this for like nostalgic tech. I think it might be interesting to ask like AI if you're not really well versed to like putting together music and visuals what kind of music goes well with you know a certain kind of visual, especially if you don't have a grasp on it. So this is

cool. And then it says there's like a little post checklist. So before you post your, your video,

cool. And then it says there's like a little post checklist. So before you post your, your video, double check that your video is vertical. You're opening three seconds. Show the finished project.

Concept is created in the first 10 seconds. All three typography styles are applied consistently.

Captions are word by word, not full sentences. The runtime is under 75 seconds. Caption text in the post itself mirrors the videos, tones, lowercase casual. Post caption ends with the series hook, day one, episode one, part one. How is that? Well, Manus always has a checklist if you use it at the very end, but you should just disregard it. Because you should already have done these

things way earlier on. If you're checking them in the end, it's just like, it's already over. So I

would just disregard this. But I think in general, as a style guy, this is really spot on. And for an analysis of the example shot, it's like a perfect transcript. So if I don't want to like remember every sentence and like type it down as I'm analyzing a video, this is really great. And this

is something that if you're, if you're, you know, trying to create content, this is one style guide.

Like you might have 10 creators that you look up to and you might like something, you might say, you know, I really like Kova's nostalgic vibe, but I really like someone else's, you know, the, you know, the way they do music or the way they do storytelling. So, you know, I think it about bringing it This helps This is just a creative process to help you get to you know whatever it is

going to work for you Yeah exactly I think every creator is kind of a mashup of different kinds of creatures and different kinds of aesthetics they like. Yeah, absolutely. Everyone has the capability to do exactly what I do because the tools, the technology is there. So you're going to

show basically how a non-technical person can take any video and just make it look 2,000 times better with some little AI tweaks that you're going to share. And that could be like enhancing static shots. That could be transitions, anything else. And anyone should be able to do this,

shots. That could be transitions, anything else. And anyone should be able to do this, right? Yeah. I think anyone should just be able to do this. Okay. Let's, let's see, see what you got.

right? Yeah. I think anyone should just be able to do this. Okay. Let's, let's see, see what you got.

Yeah. So I can show a couple of examples. I think the first one we could if you have any kind of like static talking shot so for example for this one I already had it like pretty well lit but if I so this is like from a YouTube video I'm editing if I take away like all of these tweaks and this

is just like the original footage you can see that the camera's not moving it's just there this can be a phone shot etc I just need to take a single frame and I'm going to bring it into FreePic, which is a place to get all of the latest image and video models. Yeah, so in FreePic, you can

use the image editor and it basically surfaces a bunch of different models I could use. I would put this still frame and I really like to use that at Banana Pro. So that's kind of my go to. And yeah,

this is super, super quick. I would really prefer to use like the visual the visual feature because then you can directly annotate on the image and kind of specify what you would like to add or remove so I already have like a nice bouquet going on but it might be nice to add a couple more

objects to like the left side to kind of balance out the frame yeah so here I don't know Greg what do you think I should add here I mean you're the pro but I would say I would say more flowers is

that crazy no we can do more flowers let's do more flowers you can go with like more detailed prompts like I can be like yeah like when you're when you're doing visual prompts are you being really specific or you're kind of general people are surprised by how general I can be with my prompts

sometimes I just put like orange tulips in a vase or I say more flowers and the reason I do this is I like to enable multiple generations to kind of like find what what I look for like I like seeing what the the model comes up with I also find that when you have simpler prompts the model tends

towards output it's actually good at as opposed to giving a very specific prompt so I can put orange tulips in a vase and here I can put I don't know, like a push or a 10 push okay and then it could

be sitting on the windowsill and yeah, this is just super, super quick. All you do is annotate the image and you press generate let me make sure it's back on Nano Banana Pro and you're seeing the best results with Nano Banana Pro, so you're just most of the time going there Yeah,

I think Nanobanana Pro is great for image gen. Yeah, for video gen, it varies a little bit. Like,

I like C-Dance. I like Kling. Like, why even, you know, someone listening to this is probably like, well, why would I even do this? You know, this looks pretty good as is, you know? Yeah. Okay,

that's a great question. Perhaps I shouldn't use this image because I already, like, took care to make sure it's well lit and stuff like that. But I can show an example where it just completely transformed the background and made it look super, super nice. Let me see if there's any others.

Yeah, like this one's a great one. So this was the original background. Like, it's just super bare.

You have like a full wall that's just nothing on it. Yeah, just see what I did with everything.

like I added fairy lights, I added a little window behind me, a vinyl record player, a fan, like bookshelves, everything. And this is just so much nicer than the original. So going to cut back to

bookshelves, everything. And this is just so much nicer than the original. So going to cut back to the original right here and then cut back to the new one. Wow. Yeah. And I think like for people listening, it's not even just the aesthetics that like make it more interesting. It's the fact that now your retention is probably going to go up. Yeah, exactly. On Instagram. And if your attention

goes up, Instagram is going to share your video with new audiences, right? So you're going to get more views, more likes, more comments. So there's like a real like business use case for this, right? Yeah. Now I'm definitely known as a creator for my visual style and for these

right? Yeah. Now I'm definitely known as a creator for my visual style and for these insane backgrounds, insane sets. But all of this was done literally in my dorm room, for example.

no longer is you know hollywood level studio sets kind of just get gatecapped to those studios any kind of creator can just do it in their bedroom so yeah that's there's a real business use case i would not be a creator if i did not use ai oh here we go so now you have the orangutan bush and then

you have a couple more flowers and if you can you can take a look at the original so i put the kind of it kind of put the flowers behind me and also the orangutan push it's interesting because like i the original photo i thought was actually pretty good but now that i'm seeing the plush and the more and the more and more flowers i feel i feel like it's more interesting yeah exactly it always

is the case that you can make a set look nicer i think perhaps like my original set was already really really nice but you can imagine how many tweaks you can do like to the edges and just make it look like ridiculously nice and no one would no one can really tell the difference so what would

you do now so it's like you would save this and put it back into adobe premiere i think that's the tool you use yeah i would say this and put it back into adobe premiere you can also use any kind of video software it's all the same kind of like notion why do you use adobe premiere i use adobe premiere because i just want like the most flexible software for anything I want to do. With

Adobe Premiere, you have so many different types of effects. You have everything from VR effects to a ton of different types of blurs. It's just so granular that I can have full control over my edit. But CapCut, it's really simple to do this in CapCut too. Right, so you can do this in CapCut,

edit. But CapCut, it's really simple to do this in CapCut too. Right, so you can do this in CapCut, which is basically like a nerfed down, more stripped down, non-technical version of Premiere Pro. Yeah, precisely. So if I take the image, it's all the same principles of just masking out

Pro. Yeah, precisely. So if I take the image, it's all the same principles of just masking out the area. I think I really like the orangutan plush, and I really want to keep them there.

the area. I think I really like the orangutan plush, and I really want to keep them there.

So I would go ahead and mask them out and then just put them right here. the one caveat is that because it's overlapping a little bit with my shoulder it would be hard to like fully mask it out perfectly and that's why in free pick i would probably need to like prompt again and ask

them to put their rank of 10 push like a little bit farther away but yeah like the same masking feature is pretty much available in every kind of editing software and masks are your best friend when you use ai it's just because like if you modify a specific aspect and you want to overlay on top of existing footage then you just have to use a mask yeah yeah i think we'll move on the

point being you might need to take a few tries but once you get a mask that's perfect you just need to like draw a little circle or something around the generation just trying to make sure the generation isn't too close to your body otherwise if your body moves then you can tell

that it's fake and yeah you can add things like orangutan plushies more plants you can just yeah especially if you're in not as decorated a room and you don't have nice things framing your face etc you can just easily add them in so the second thing I can show is how to do transitions and this

is always helpful if you want like really gripping like hooks like for example i can show this transition i don't know if you can hear it maybe i should play out loud so i can hear it a little bit

hey kova so what do you do well i'm an artist but you just graduated from stan okay so there was two

parts that were ai here and it's just super simple transitions so this one hey cobra so what do you do like the kid bouncing like that's not real and this is also not real i'm an artist yeah that was just not real that was an impossible shot the way you would do transitions like that are you

would take start frame and frame so i would also go back on free pick and i go to video generator so the way you to do that is you have your star frame and the star frame is just like the image of me as a kid and I tend to like C-dance. C-dance pro is great because it also gives you audio and

you would get like the kid laughing and stuff and it usually pretty nice So I can do C I would give it probably high resolution maybe four seconds on audio And people are always unsure of how to prompt For video gen the prompt is a little bit interesting. You always want to be really specific

about what the camera is doing. So I would be like, oh, the camera is static. And then I would go ahead and say whatever else is happening. You want to describe it like a story. You never want to write a very generic description. Yeah, kind of talk through it like you're narrating what's

happening in, you know, a book you just picked up randomly. So on the table is a picture of a

kid. the kid is waving your arms triculous wow okay while the photo doesn't move i would also

kid. the kid is waving your arms triculous wow okay while the photo doesn't move i would also probably not use like doesn't or not things like that why is that for some reason i think models

don't really understand don't have this or do not do this they would actually do it because of the keyword that's present in the prompt because they're not actually like comprehending they're comprehending like a string of words like the order doesn't matter as much so i think camera

is static is like positive terminology so it would work well we can try this but there's another way that could work well with ai there's always a bit of unpredictability you can do something i like to use prompt editor so i would just kind of describe what is happening. Camera on the table

is a picture of a kid. And then I want the kid in the center of the picture to be waving their arms gleefully while the picture doesn't move. Sorry, what is prompt editor? Yeah, it's kind of helping

you write what would be a good prompt. Okay, so it's helping you optimize the prompt for the model to get the most out of it. Yeah, that's a great way to put it. Okay, and now I have a prompt. I

would just look through it and make sure it's kind of saying what I wanted it to say. Yeah,

this should probably be pretty good. So it sounds like with the prompt editor, more times than not, you're getting pretty good output. Yeah, always. Yeah, so a lot of these I did either with a prompt editor or with a very simple prompt. Like, for example, this one I just said, the brown book flips open and zooms into my writing. And I had this as the starting shot and this as the ending

shot. So what you're doing basically is you're creating three or four second clips and then

shot. So what you're doing basically is you're creating three or four second clips and then you're stitching it together. Is that what you're doing? Yeah. Here I'm kind of having two different shots in the same scene. But instead of like doing a direct cut from like here to here, it would just

not tell as good a story in the beginning. And I think this is also like the aha moment for people when watching a YouTube video that would get them to stay for the rest of the video. because the

first 15 seconds is genuinely like so important so you kind of want to make sure you have the aha moment that makes people stay and i think this was definitely one of them here we go let's see how it looks yeah it works the way we wanted it to the camera isn't as static so i think we can try again

with like camera stationary yeah so this is super simple both of these but like they're how i do 90 of my craziest shots in this koba anything else you want to say i guess like i thought i have been

having which might may or may not be interesting is that creator culture has gotten so much more fragmented that really like the creatives the creators of the future to some extent need to think about scale a lot but they really really need to now think about differentiation. And

one of the ways to differentiate is to be really, really smart about using the right tools. And for myself, it's my differentiation. My differentiating factor is the artistry that

tools. And for myself, it's my differentiation. My differentiating factor is the artistry that comes with my content and that AI helps me achieve a lot. So I think it's, it will be something interesting for every person who wants to start telling stories and creating content to

think about. And can you give a rundown of the tools you use, just so we have it. You use Manus,

think about. And can you give a rundown of the tools you use, just so we have it. You use Manus, you use Adobe Premiere, you use FreePick. What other tools are you using? Yeah, yeah, for sure.

I can also bracket them up. So for video editing, I like to use Premiere Pro and After Effects for visual effects, if you want to go crazy with it. For ImageGen, I like to use Nanabanana Pro. For

VideoGen, my go-to recently has been SeaDance. But you can never go wrong with cling, especially cling 3. For research on existing videos and not having to go through every step of the process,

cling 3. For research on existing videos and not having to go through every step of the process, I do like to use Manus. I think right now it's a little broken with Instagram links, so might need to look into it. Other tools I like to use on a daily basis as a creator. Yeah, I love

using Obsidian with Claude Code to plan all of my projects. I love using poke to organize everything I need to do in my daily life and kind of break it down day by day. Yeah, I think that's pretty much it. And just curious, I won't, I won't, you know, we'll end here, but how do you, you know,

much it. And just curious, I won't, I won't, you know, we'll end here, but how do you, you know, I'm just curious about obsidian and cloud code in general. You don't need to show your obsidian, but because I know it's a very personal vault, but how I can show it. I don't care.

How do you, how do you think about using as a creator? How do you think about using obsidian and Cloud Code? Yeah. Well, the thing is with notes and projects, it feels incredibly static about a

Cloud Code? Yeah. Well, the thing is with notes and projects, it feels incredibly static about a year ago. But since then, I've just really loved, I can keep a bunch of different templates. I have

year ago. But since then, I've just really loved, I can keep a bunch of different templates. I have

my own storyboard template for everything, to keep track of all the things that we need to get to create a video. And this is my template. I also have an editor storyboard template because I'm currently trying to find an editor and I want to sometimes adapt my own template to something that is readable for an editor. I keep everything from every single project in Obsidian. So if you look

at that, for example, I have my Tamagotchi video and I often bring this into Cursor, for example, or Cloud Code and I would open up my Obsidian Vault. Let me do that. my vault and I could

just be like oh turn my free teacher arrow script into the self storyboard template so if I already have the script ready and it's this one and I want to turn it into a storyboard I have the template ready and it can do it for me I also do other things like sometimes I go through mass

restructuring and I'm like hey, like this other process worked well, maybe organize my projects, you know, using this kind of folder and using this kind of like folder structure and nomenclature. So

I would just immediately ask like cursor or cloud code. Cursor is a bit faster if I use cursor like cloud. But yeah, I really think it's kind of like a superpower for anyone who's writing their stuff

cloud. But yeah, I really think it's kind of like a superpower for anyone who's writing their stuff in files. You can easily index into any file and find what you need. You can easily turn one file

in files. You can easily index into any file and find what you need. You can easily turn one file type into another kind of type, like from script to storyboard. Yeah. So is the idea like a good place to start for people to create templates? Is that a good place to start? Yes. If you have

like a way of doing things, like I really am a big believer in systems. Yep. In order to scale content, you always need to build great systems. And one way to do that is to have AI execute on the systems you don't want to do by having a well-documented approach already. For example,

I also have a COVID-cut style guide, my own thing, that I keep to... Yeah,

so when I'm turning a script into a storyboard and starting to fill out that storyboard, I can ask Claude to do a first pass following my style guide. Right, makes sense. And then if you're using tools like Manist to create your style guide, basically you can export that to

Obsidian and then sort of edit it yourself. And then now all of a sudden tools like Cursor and Claude Code could access it. Exactly. It's super awesome. Just in the minute we were talking, it turned the script into this nice table so I can now find all the things I need and review it.

Amazing. Yeah. Kova, this has been awesome. Thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing with us. For folks who want to follow Kova and her journey and all the great content she's doing,

with us. For folks who want to follow Kova and her journey and all the great content she's doing, I will include links in the show notes, in the description. obviously her stuff is top notch and I encourage everyone to go check it out Kovah is there anything else you want to leave people with?

I guess the last thing would be there is no better time than now to make art so you should go and do that 100% quit listening to us and just go make some art get off this thing go do it, go have fun, have a creative day everyone and we will see you next time and thanks again Kovac thanks Greg