Videos Onto an External Drive

So I have NO idea where to put this so I am putting it here.
I have a white MacBook and have had one for about a year or so (This September), I have finally gotten to the point where I am running out of space, gasp and I have to say it has to do with my Movie collection which is now close to 30 videos...
I am wondering if there is a way to get it onto my external disk without screwing them up... Since there is no easy way to drag and drop, I am wondering how even to begin.
Thanks so much!

Let me ask this - on your Movies page, go into icon mode (top right of the iTunes window, the middle of the three icons), then, when you click, hold and start to drag a movie (make sure you're in icon or list mode), do you get an icon on your cursor with a little "1" in a red star?
If you do, can you at least drag and drop it onto your desktop?
If that works, what happens when you try to drag it, again from iTunes, onto the external drive?
Or, try dragging the new file from the desktop to the other drive. Does that work?
Matt

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Hi
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a. the external hard disk - MUST BE - Mac OS extended (hfs) formatted -
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Hi
iMovie'08
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Moving - Can/Should only be done within iMovie and in iMovie'08 only Events can be
moved. Still this is the important one as it contains all raw material and takes up most space.
In iMovie'09 and 11 - Projects also can be moved to an external hard disk.
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• Should be - a FireWire one as it will work much better than USB/USB2
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info ask in iPhoto forum.
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My music is on an external drive as to not use up gigabytes of storage that need not be used for media.
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