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By Scott on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 am | updates.

Corey Barker turned me onto this amazing flash video (it’s only about 90 seconds long), at the MGM Grand web site and I have to tell you; it is absolutely just about the most amazing Flash-based promo I’ve ever seen. This should have been a SuperBowl ad (it blows most of the others away).

Take 90 seconds, follow this link, then click the ENTER MAXIMUM VEGAS link on the right side of the photo; sit back, and just watch. Incredibly creative, seamlessly edited, and flawlessly executed. My hats off the designers/video editors who dreamed this up.

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^#1

Now that’s some darn good editing. Pretty wild.

I often wounder how effective fancy flash sites are. I know they look stunning, but take photographer for example. Does the consumer really take more interest because of them.

I’ve been moving away from flash. (except for slideshows) and using html/wordpress so I can get noticed by google more, have a fast loading simple and easy to navigate page. This comes up on Pro Photo Show and I’m always playing with stats to see how people respond to what.

I guess I’m going off on a tangent now when all you really intended was for us to see a cool video.

Super neat!.. Gavin

Seim Effects on May 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 am
^#2

WOW … now that is impressive!!!!

Must find an excuse to visit Vegas … hold on a sec, Photoshop World … now that’s what I call a good excuse :o)

Cheers Scott.

Glyn Dewis on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 am
^#3

Superb video. A great inspiration - so easy to watch and enjoy. Thanks Scott for the link.

Mike on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 am
^#4

The “Enter Maximum Vegas” Button kind of doesn’t appear in Safari 3.1. At least for me not. But in Firefox it does work.

Ivan on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 am
^#5

Hope this isn’t considered “off topic”, but I think the continuity in this video (from 1994) is a heck of a lot more impressive. One camera, one continuous shot…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5HOsnq_2j4

MS on May 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 am
^#6

Very nice. Great creativity as well.

Chris on May 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 am
^#7

Very similar to what the folks at www.2advanced.com do. They are a talented bunch. If you haven’t seen their site yet it is worth checking out.

Very creative stuff.

Bob DeChiara on May 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 am
^#8

Wow! Very cool!!!

Dave Lloyd on May 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 am
^#9

Seim Effects: Flash still has it’s small place on the web and in this case, it really works. MGM and Vegas needs to be flashy. The problem with Google is when the entire site is created with flash.

Stephen on May 2nd, 2008 at 8:46 am
^#10

Technically cool, but very boringly Las Vegas. For an equally impressive Falsh site try this one belonging to David Hidalgo and Louis Perez of Los Lobos fame - www.latinplayboys.org

Bill Steen on May 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
^#11

This is so 2 years ago. Check out http://www.thefwa.com for some recent flash that will blow this out of the water.

I do agree it’s amazing through but it has been attempted many times within the industry to replicate.

Bryan Scott on May 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
^#12

Really nice, sexy without being over the top, caters directly to the age group likely to spend the money $. Well done!

I think Flash used like this is cool, but agree with some of the other posters that if it’s the only technology used, it gets boring AND time consuming.

Maltbyman on May 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
^#13

Now that was really impressive. Definitely the best flash promo I have ever seen….bar none!

Cheers,

Nevin

Nevin Van Nest on May 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
^#14

Hi,

Actually It’s one of cool website. But, this site is about a year old according to my memory.

Scott Kelby’s blog is one of the best blogs too. There are lots of blog from other authors, designers and publishers too. But, we can see something special in your blog.

Greetings from Las Vegas

Oscar

Oscar Nonis on May 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
^#15

Very nicely done. That’s a lot of video with very little load time. Very nice.

alanvalek.com on May 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 am
^#16

Wow! Seamless, transitions well. What other software do you think was used to create this promo besides Flash? Thanks for sharing Scott.

Cristina on May 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
^#17

Scott,
You’ve got BIG competition…you may be meeting your match…have you seen “You Suck at Photoshop”? link:http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Big_Fat_Brain/You_Suck_at_Photoshop/YouSuckatPhotoshop1_398.aspx

It was nice while it lasted…

Paul Barcewicz on May 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
^#18

Hi Scott. Thanks for the link.
I just wrote a post few weeks ago about Vegas ( www.paulopics.com ). I was there for this year WPPI. It was great… and you know what???
I stayed at the MGM. That was a cool video!!!
Thanks

Paulo Jordao on May 4th, 2008 at 3:48 am

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