Backstory: I’ve got plenty of ways to obtain a local copy of YouTube videos, that isn’t the problem. What the problem is, is that just now, an ad preceded the video I was going to watch*****. That ad was damn cool. I want a local copy. Using my normal methods, I easily get the video I was going to watch (but have no interest in obtaining a local copy), but nothing I’ve tried will grab the ad. Does YouTube make it possible? If not, is it possible with any available software? Any freeware suggestions?
***** I had no intention of grabbing a local copy of the video, I just wanted to see if I was remembering a movie scene correctly.
I think your best bet is to see if there’s a regular video version of the ad. If their marketing team is any good, there’ll be a youtube version of it, or maybe a Facebook one on the company’s page.
Never mind. Although the downloaded video has the file name of the video I was about to watch, it has the content of the ad. It did, in fact, work just the way it seemed, except for the name it gave the file. It just made the file-name of the ad = the file-name of video. I do, in fact, have a copy of the ad, instead of the video. I just have to rename it appropriately… and remember that it works that way, instead of how it claims it works.