Bought a new MBP and due to lack of HD space I need to off load video?

OK in short my iTunes folder is LARGE about 240GB which includes about 14GB of audio. I want to have iTunes move the video files (movies, tv shows and iMovie files) to an external drive (time capsule)...
But I would like to keep the Audio (music, podcasts and audiobook) on my new MBP internal drive. And when I download or edit more in iMovie to have them save on the external drive?
How do I do this

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