Move to External Disk and Delete?

Hi,
I have a external disk which I bought for the purpose of extra storage on my computer. I have in the computer's HD, many movies which I made from iMovie6. Most of these are ten gig each. If I just simply drag and drop the movies into the external disk, then can I delete them from the Hard Drive? I am hesitant about doing this, because if I don't do something right, then I may lose them all.
Thanks,
--Christoph

Select the hard drive in the Finder and choose Get Info from the File menu; if it is listed as being in the Mac OS Extended format, you can safely move the movies to the external drive and then delete them from the hard disk.
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