Keep movies physically separated from music. How?

I'd like to keep my movies on a different separate directory and not just 'in' iTunes *). I can do that by alt-dragging the movies to iTunes. The effect is however that I cannot set any information for those movies, not genre, etc. As a result they show up as one undifferentiated list in Apple TV.
Is there a way around this? Can I have two physical locations for my iTunes stuff?
*) This is because I rsync the library with my MBA for use on the road, but it takes up too much space on the MBA if I include the movies.

Gerben Wierda wrote:
On my Apple wireless keyboard, the key is labeled "alt" and has the old Apple option sign.
ah yes. fair enough.
So one iTunes library can have the music/movies stored in two physical locations? Say, one directory for music and one for movies? How?
you can move selected content to another location by changing +*iTunes media folder location+* (preferences > advanced) to the desired location (an external HD or another internal HD), selecting (highlighting) the content in iTunes, right-clicking, and choosing +consolidate files+.
again, above technique assumes you have the +*copy to+* option enabled. the operation will copy the selection to the location specified earlier. when done, you can delete the original files in order to make room. don't forget to point +*iTunes media folder location+* back to its original settings afterwards.
i haven't tried with movies or tv shows, but there is also a script that can automate the process:
[_*Re-Locate Selected v1.1*_|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=relocateselected]
This script will re-locate the files of the selected iTunes tracks from their current location to a new user-chosen folder. iTunes will be updated with each track's new location and all of each track's meta-data will be preserved. Option to remove the files from their original location. (I don't advise using this on more than an album's worth of tracks or so at a time; re-locating dozens of tracks' files to a single folder doesn't seem to make much sense to me.)
NOTE: If your "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" preference set, you will not be able to create new folders in or re-locate files within the iTunes Media folder; outside is OK.
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