How do I keep movies on my Iphone, but delete them from my computer as well?

I've got a computer with limited hard drive space left due to an exhaustive game library. As such, I can only 'afford' to fit maybe 8 gigs (2 or so) worth of media downloads on it. And suffice to say, downloading media with my computer is much preferable to sloooooowly doing it over the cloud.
The problem, however, is that I know that there's a crazy amount of autonomy in Itunes' decisions, namely that deleting a file from your computer will make Itunes decide that the Iphone doesn't get to keep it either.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing?

Hi
If I keep them on itunes thet will sync over to the ipod when connected.We didnt want them on the opod because when on shuffle they will play which isnt what we want.any ideas appreciated.
Cheers

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