How do I get iTunes to store my Movies/tv on an External Drive?

Well, my Laptop's running out of space & I thought it best if I began shifting my movies & tv over to my external drive (seeing as they're bigger files than music & podcasts).
I've read elsewhere that it is possible, however they were only instructions for Macs.
So, is there any specific things I should do?
I's thinking perhaps move the movies & tv over to the hard drive, & in the itunes folders of my laptop have shortcuts to their locations on the hard drive.
That's just a novice's idea so I wouldn't know if that'd work.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Select your external drive and "Get Info" from the Finder menu.
A window appears and at the bottom is how you can unlock and set the permissions to you and apply to enclosed items.
Make sure to do this only to a external non-bootable (no OS X installed) file type drive.
You also may be interested in Decloner, it takes some time but finds all the real duplicates, not only just in name or thumbnail appearance which can decieve you and you wind up deleting the original by accident.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30827/decloner
As always, make a backup of everything regardless to DVD's beforehand. Less a few months later you do a "oh sugar!"

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