Using AI Tools (Manus, FreePik etc) to Create Viral IG Reels

Synopsis

Cova (Instagram Reels creator with millions of views, has worked with NVIDIA and Adobe) walks through her full AI-enhanced workflow: Manus AI to reverse-engineer viral video styles and produce a replication plan with aesthetic keywords and step-by-step filming guidance, FreePik's Nanobanana Pro to transform plain talking-head shots into cinematic scenes, and Seedance / Kling 3 for 'impossible' 3–4 second transition clips. She closes with her planning stack: Obsidian for scripts, storyboard templates and style guides, Claude Code or Cursor to convert scripts into storyboards and restructure folders automatically.

Ideas in this episode

• Subscription fashion / styling box

  Cova shows an AI workflow for reverse-engineering viral reels and making cinematic short-form assets, which is more useful for marketing a fashion subscription than operating one.

• AI UGC ads / AI-generated ad creative

  Cova walks through her AI-enhanced Instagram Reels workflow — Manus AI reverse-engineers viral video styles, outputs a replication plan with aesthetic keywords and step-by-step production steps.