External HD question

This might sound like a weird question, but I figured someone here might know the answer. I have a macbook pro g4 with a 80gig hd. I want to keep all my music on my laptop, but I want to have all my movies and tv shows on my 300gb external hardrive.

So my question is: is there any way to have itunes run off both hard drives? Last time I that I tried to add movies from my external drive, iTunes copied them into my music folder as well. Can I stop iTunes from doing that and just run the movies from my external hd?

FreeState said:

There are at least two ways of doing this.

One is to change your preferences every time you add a movie so it wont copy it (see attached screen capture for proper settings). Or the easiest is when you import a move into iTunes via drag and drop of the file hold down the option key at the same time.

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I turned off the copy to itunes folder, is it really necessary to keep that on anyways?

Whenever I download music from itunes or buy a tv show, doesn't it go into my itunes folder anyways?

Is that option just for music that is added from elsewhere?