Can I manually add videos to my iPod and remove them from my Powerbook?

Greetings,
First of all, I wish everyone a merry christmas and a good new year.
I love my new iPod 5G, and have been copying plenty of videos. Sadly this has resulted in the depletion of hard disk space on my Powerbook. I was wondering if I could manually update the videos like you can do so with songs so that the videos remain on the iPod and not on the Powerbook.
Is this possible?
Thanks.

Thank you and happy holidays to you also.
First, burn the movies to data disk as a means to back up all of your movies, music, etc. Then transfer them to the iPod & you can delete them from the PB. Make sure you go into your Preferences and set the iPod to "manually manage songs & playlists" first so that when you next sync you won't accidently delete the iPod contents.

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