What is a good way of storing movies?

Hello,
I would really appreciate some help with managing my movie collection, I intend to store them on an external drive because the internal one is not enough. I am going to save all movies on the external drive but don't know whether to use itunes or Quick time player. I will have a combination of CD's which i will copy to a drive and downloaded movies.
Could anyone offer any suggestions, any help would be most appreciated, I am new to Macs and trying to get my head around the various ways of doing things.
Thanks
Deano

If you watched the movie in iTunes, you can drag and drop the movie file from iTunes to the external HD.
In the External HD you can create folders to sort your movies. E.g Action Folder, comedy folder etc.
Once you have dragged the copy from iTunes to External HD. You can delete the movie from iTunes by highlighting and hitting delete button. iTunes will pop up a message asking if you want to move to trash. click yes. then empty trash to get rid of it permanently from your Mac.
Any movie you have watched in iTunes can open in Quick time Player. files with the ending mp4, mvk will work.
Sometimes Quick time has problems with some .avi movies. If so, you can download VLC player from the internet. It plays most video files. In order to open a video in VLC, you will have to highlight the movie by clicking on it an then go to get info (command i). Then use the drop down menu on it to choose VLC Player.

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