Switching storage for captured video files

Hello -- as always, my apologies if this is an easy question and I'm just too dumb to figure it out.
I have been capturing large amounts of video from my HandyCam onto my late-2008 MacBook Pro, many hours' worth, then editing it with iMovie and burning DVDs -- mostly just home movie stuff but some more professional things. But as you know these files are huge memory-hogs, many many MBs. I have a 700-GB external drive that I use to back up my MacBook using Time Machine, which has oceans of memory available. Even though I have lots of gigs of memory available on my laptop, it seems like the smart thing to do would be to transfer all this raw and edited video onto the external drive. Can anyone tell me how to go back into the iMovie or other preferences and change the default setting, so that video files are automatically stored on the external drive and not the laptop hard drive? I know the MacBook is fast and awesome, but my experience is that computers work better when all their internal memory isn't jammed up with storage.
I might also want to shift all the already-captured video over onto the external drive as well -- though that might create a situation where I try to find a file in a place where it had been stored before (laptop) and it's been moved and iMovie doesn't know where it is.
Thanks for any help, your expertise is appreciated!
Will

The capture rate is normal at roughly 13 Gigs per hour of video, whether it's converted analog or straight from a miniDV camcorder. DV Stream (.dv) is the native file type for iMovie (at least through iM6) and there's not a preference to change this.
iDVD can fit between 1 and 2 hrs of video on a single layer disc, depending on the amount of compression (and conversely, quality). It's possible to fit more on a disc with other software (eg, Roxio Toast) if that's a factor.
Here are two articles for some additional info:
VHS to DVD Options
http://www.macworld.com/2004/05/features/fromvhstodvd/index.php
Editing Old Home Videos
http://www.macworld.com/2007/01/secrets/febmac911/index.php
Check the forum for tips on using an external drive.
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