Sending movies from macbook to apple tv

I've had an Apple TV since Christmas 09 and for the life of me I am so confused with how it's syncing works. My macbook is virtually full so I want to keep my movies on the Apple TV drive, but my apple tv keeps sending it's contents to my macbook. I've not got movies ticked in the syncing setting which seems to have stopped the transfer, but now I have movies on my macbook that I want on my Apple TV to free some space.
How do I send movies from my macbook to my apple tv's hard drive without apple tv sending it's contents to my macbook?

Syncing as the name suggests keeps iTunes/AppleTV in sync.
AppleTv is not a storage device, but it canhold synced copies of iTunes material.
The problem you have is that there's no simple way to get stuff off AppleTV, so if there's no copy elsewhere, you'd lose it if something happened to the AppleTV.
Yes, with a laptop you may eat up valuable space, so the best option is to find the files via iTunes (right click) and copy them to an external drive for storage. Next delete the entry from iTunes to free up space on the laptop.
Next change your iTunes Advanced Preferences to stop items added to iTunes being copied to it's library (i.e. Macbook library location), then re-add the files from the external drive to iTunes by drag and drop or menu options - in this way the media is 'catalogued' in iTunes database and available to sync to AppleTV, but lives on the external drive. You may need to resync the content added this way to AppleTv if it initially disappears.
Any purchases made on AppleTV need to be allowed to sync back for you to make backup copies, and you can apply the same system of adding them to an external drive.
The external drive would not need to be connected all the time, only if you needed to sync something to AppleTV that wasn't on it or the Macbook - it will stay on the AppleTv once synced even if external drive not connected but won't be available in iTunes to play without connecting next to item if you try.

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