Media browser video

unfortunately I can't find an answer to how do I get the Media browser to look for movie files anywhere other than the movie folder. For eg. I save the files to a portable hard drive and I can't get Garage band to see them. Surely there must be a way to set the Media Browser to look in other places for files. The preferences doesn't seem to allow this.
Anyone know where I look to change these settings.

actually I worked it out myself, open the finder and drag the folder with movies into the top of the media browser window and then they show up to be selected.

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