Move video from iTunes to external HD and then delete from internal HD?

How do I move certain TV shows and movies from my iTunes library (stored on my internal HD) to a new external HD (it's a 500GB WD Passport Studio)? I want to free up some space on my computer so after I transfer the videos to my external HD I plan on deleting the originals. If I do this, will I be able to easily plug in my external HD and play the transferred videos on iTunes without any problems?
I've searched all over for an easy answer to this but can't find any. Please help! Help of ANY kind would be amazing!

iTunes doesn't really have a way to move only TV/movies. It can only move the whole shebang - music, podcasts, TV, movies, apps, all of it.
It moves it all when you run the consolidate command.
If you only want to move a few things, you can move the TV/movies yourself using Windows Explorer. This will make itunes lose the paths. You would then have to right-click>Get Info on the items you moved, and browse to their new locations, so itunes knows where they are.
If you are moving a lot of files, it might be easier to
- delete them in itunes
- move the files using Win Exp
- re-add them to itunes
The drawback to this method is losing ratings, play counts, and date added metadata. But you wouldn't have to re-locate them for itunes one-by-one.

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To move your movies simply copy them to their new location, you'll find movies in a folder called movies in your itunes music folder which by default is your music folder. Then you can delete the originals by selecting all the movies in itunes and deleting them and choosing to move originals to the trash when prompted.
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