ITunes: Seperating music from other media

I recently bought an external HD which I have connected to a new Airport Extreme. I want to move only my movies and TV shows to that external drive.
Even though the external HD streams fast, iTunes seems to be more responsive switching files when the media is on the Mac's HD. I like to surf my music collection rather than passively listen.
Is there a good way to move just the video stuff to the ext. HD?
Thanks.

You could create two libraries, one for the videos and the other for the muslc. I use Libra for switching between the two. I don't know if that will work but it might if you activate the video library when wanting to stream the videos.
You might want to post that question in the iTunes forum.
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