How do i move my movies from my hard drive

I want to movies from my hard drive on my MACBOOK PRO to an external hard drive to free up space.  What is the best way to do this?

If they're stored as loose files, just drag them to the external drive.
If they're part of an iTunes or iPhoto library, drag it as a whole there, launch the application with the Option key held down, and navigate to that instance of the library. An iPhoto library needs to be stored on a drive, partition, or disk image formatted as Mac OS Extended.
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