Using Memory in iMac as well as AppleTV

Hi, hope someone can help. I've got myself Apple TV and I've set it to sync automatically from my iMac. The trouble is I'm running out of memory on my iMac, and I'm wondering can I get the Apple TV to take directly from an external hard drive I have instead? Or does it have to be via iTunes? I also have a time capsule (if there's a way I can get it from that), but I've been storing all my movies on the external drive, and now I'm having to put them onto the iMac to get onto iTunes to get onto Apple TV - I'm finding it very frustrating!
Any advice would be appreciated, Thanks

Hi, thanks..when I was running out of memory before I tried transferring all my iTunes to the external harddrive, but it messed up big time - ended up having to delete everything and rebuild (albums had songs missing, wrong artwork, all kinds of weird goings on).. Would it work sending from 2 different iTunes libraries to the one Apple TV? I've got a windows laptop (tsk!) with 500gb of space on, which is wifi, so I guess I could store all movies on that instead of external hard drive, but would that interfere with the library already linked from my iMac?

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