Artwork for Videos on External Hard Drive

Hi, I have a 1.5 TB external hard drive that has movies, tv episodes, and videos on it. When I connect my iPhone to iTunes, and my external hard drive to my computer, I drag and drop the videos from the drive to my iPhone. I'd like to have artwork for the videos without storing them on my computer's hard drive. I would also like it to show on the iPhone a preview of the videos, such as a movie poster. How can I do this? Thank you in advance!!

iPhoto is not involved in moving the library - and 3GB is far below the minimum required 10GB
To move the iphoto library
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

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