How Do I Transfer my iTunes Library from One TC to another TC?

I just bought one of the new Time Capsules and when it gets here I will have to do some work to transfer files from my existing TC. I ran out of room on my hard disk, so in iTunes I put my movies and TV shows on the TC and have my music on my hard disk.
So when I get my new TC, I know about setting up backups on it. And I know about telling iTunes to point to a new location. But how do I get iTunes to transfer those existing movies and TV shows from the old TC to the new TC? Just transfer them by hand in the FInder?

You should use the Finder to copy your iTunes data from one shared disk to the other.
Did you know that Apple does not recommend storing any other data on a Time Machine backup disk? Time Machine will gradually fill up the disk and then automatically purge old backups, so you will eventually run out of space. It may also confuse Time Machine to have its available space suddenly disappear.

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