How can I back up stuff on Time Machine?

The hard drive / start up disk on my macbook pro is almost full. I have deleted as much as I can, and it's time to start storing stuff on an external hard drive. I have a folder full of home videos, and I thought that would be the perfect thing to store on my time machine and delete from my computer. I dragged one video to the time machine and then once it transfered I deleted it from the folder. When I went to empty the trash, it wouldn't delete because it was "in use."
So, how do I transfer documents / photos / videos onto my time machine so that I can delete them from my computer?

If u want to backup ur hard drive contents just follow this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427. Though as u said u want to back up just ur videos so do this. Format ur hard drive using disk utility to FAT32 then just copy ur files over

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Dear Dave Sawyer,
You're perfectly right, I posted the same question in two different topics.
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that more people would respond if I used :
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