Two itunes libraries and one apple TV

Greetings, what I would like to do is to have my main iTunes library selected (certain movies, music, apps for ipad/iphone) which is located on my iMac. I would also like to have a second iTunes library where I keep a hundred gigs or so of video on an external hard drive that can be accessed by Apple TV. Any thoughts on the easiest way to accomplish this. I don't want to store my main iTunes library on an external but I don't want a hundred gigs of video that I may or may not watch sitting on my main hard drive. Thanks in advance.

If you keep additional content on an external HDD, you can add it to your iTunes library using alt-drag without copying it to your laptop. Obviously when the drive is not connected you will not be able to play that content and will receive an error if you do, but you will be able to play it when the external drive is connected.

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