Storing movies on external hard drive with password preotection?

After having an external hard drive stolen from our home last summer I'm now obsessive about all of my media being password protected. At the same time our Movies folder is now 276GB in size and I am running out of space on our iMac. Is there any way to store the videos on a password protected external hard drive (and is there a recommendation on a specific model)? The only thing I have seen out there for password protecting an external drive for a mac is truecrypt, and that doesn't seem to allow for accessing files from iMovie. Any suggestions are appreciated.

telebump wrote:
... Is there any way to store the videos on a password protected external hard drive ...
• use Apps/Disk Utility/ to create a .dmg of huge size ...
• you are asked to use a pw
• 'mount' that dmg and use it as your ext. folder/hardrive
for using iM, you have to mount und unlock that dmg first ...
no need for special hardware

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