Alternate library for ATV content...

The movies and TV shows I have purchased through my ATV are filling up my computer's HD, therefore I need to move them to an alernate library in order to free up space in my computer. I do not want to move my whole library to the time capsule because I want to be able to play my music in my computer when I am not at home. Can this be done?
Also, form here on, when I purchase a movie through my ATV, will it sync to my computer or will it sync directly to the new alternate library in Time Capsule?
Thanks...!

There is no need to create 2 separate libraries. My set up consists of 2 ATVs, one syncing music and one syncing selected TV Shows. It is also syncing selected audio to a nano and selected audio and video to a touch. My video library is now over 1TB so it will definitely not fit on my MacBook Pro's 200GB drive. Since all the video I want for my weekly 4 day trips will fit on my touch there is no need to carry my external drive with me.
My iTunes Media folder remains on my MacBook Pro's hard drive containing audio files (Podcasts, Music and Audiobooks). All my Movies and TV Show video files live on an external drive. Remove the check beside iTunes Preferences Advance menu's "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library". You can now move all the videos over to the external drive. iTunes will probably lose it's association to them displaying the exclamation mark beside them in iTunes requiring you to delete their entries from here as well. Once they are all transferred over to the external drive and removed from the computer's iTunes Media folder you can add them back into iTunes.
iTunes will recognize the videos when connected to your external drive however display the exclamation mark beside them when the external drive is not connected. Any iPods syncing to iTunes will retain any videos according to you sync settings even though iTunes will display the exclamation mark. Video syncing will return to normal once iTunes is connected to the drive with the movies. Windows users should assign the external drive a drive letter so it doesn't change, Mac users need not worry here.
Now the only real down fall with this set up is new video purchases will need to be transfer over to the external drive and re-added to iTunes.

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