Having more than one iTunes media folders

Hi all,
I keep my music in my iMac locally (stardard directory /Users/xxx/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media). Now I'm using iTunes also for video and its size is so big that my HD is almost full.
I have a network drive (WD) so I'd like to keep my .m4v in a remote directory in parallel to the rest of my local files (music, etc). I've tryind to create a softlink pointing to the mountpoint in which I mount the remote folder but iTunes doens't recognice the content.
Can anybody tell me how to have more than one folder at the same time for my videos?
Thanks and regards...

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