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My MacBook Air only has 128gb, so I’m buying a 2 TB external to hopefully store all the downloads. I’ve googled the issue, but it all seems a bit more confusing than what I believe it should be; DMR and all that jazz. I want to plug in the external, download the movies off iTunes directly onto the external, and simply play them off that instead of the internal drive. My MacBook will be with me, so it isn’t like I’m trying to watch these movies on another PC or TV and such. I’ll still have iTunes downloaded on my Mac and everything. Since this is the case, will the movies be able to be played off the external through iTunes on the computer while plugged in? Meaning no M4V to MP4 converter is necessary and it will work offline as well? Can I Transfer iTunes Movies to External Drive and Play them from External Drive? "I am trying to free up some space on my laptop (macbook). I have several full length movies I purchased on iTunes. Am I able to store them on my external hard drive? If so, will I be able to play them from the hard drive, or will I need to save the video on my laptop again before playing?" You may know that you can simply find and drag the iTunes movies and TV shows to the external hard drive to save and backup. But when you connect your external drive to your pc to play the movies or TV shows with Windows Media Player, VLC or other media player on your pc, you will find that iTunes movies and TV shows and not play. You still need your iTunes or Qicktime Player to play it. What if you try to stream them to your TV ? Then you need to get an Apple TV to do it. If you are the guy is looking for a way to play your purchased and rented iTunes movies TV shows freely from external drive, this article will give you an answer.  How to Play iTunes Movies and TV Shows from External Drive Without LimitationGeneral speaking, movies and TV shows that you purchased and rented from iTunes Store are limited to play in Apple ecosystem and rentals need to play in 24 hours once you started to watch it which means you can't transfer purchased iTunes movies to other devices for playback, cannot keep the iTunes M4V rentals for watching when they have expired. By removing DRM protection from the iTunes movies, you will be free from all the restriction and able to keep the movie as long as you want. You can transfer your iTunes movies to external drive to play on any PCs or TVs with any player. Tool Required: NoteBurner M4V Converter Plus
NoteBurner M4V Converter Plus adopts an innovative DRM decrypting technique which makes it possible to unlock iTunes DRM videos with lossless video and audio quality. It will help you to directly crack the DRM iTunes video and convert both iTunes purchased and rented videos to normal video formats to backup to your external drive and keep iTunes rentals forever! The following is a detailed tutorial about how to convert purchased or rented iTunes movies/TV shows to normal video formats using NoteBurner M4V Converter Plus. Please download this useful tool on your Mac pc or Windows PC first before getting started. Tutorial: Move iTunes Movies TV Shows to External Drive1 Import iTunes Movies or TV ShowsDownload and install the NoteBurner iTunes Movie to External Drive Converter on your Windows or Mac computer, then click the Add Movie button to choose the content you want to convert from iTunes library. After that, click OK, the files will be successfully imported. 2 Choose Output SettingsTo play iTunes movies from external hard drive freely, you can simply click the format bar and choose "Lossless MP4" from the profile list. The quality of the output video will be lossless and almost all devices and players support MP4 video file. 3 Convert iTunes Movie to External DriveClick the convert button to start to convert iTunes M4V to MP4 video. When the conversion is done, iTunes movies and TV shows are no different from other local video files. Just find them and copy them to your external drive. Useful Tip: How to Quickly Find iTunes Movies TV Shows on Mac or Windows ComputerTo access all of your iTunes movies and TV shows from the file system you will need to use the appropriate paths listed below, all music, songs, movies, TV Shows, and media stored in iTunes will be found in these locations of either Mac or Windows PC. In Mac computer, all of your iTunes content is located at: ~/Music/iTunes Media/ Some Macs store the iTunes directory in the following location instead: ~/Music/iTunes/ Windows XP: \My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\ Windows Vista: \Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\ Windows 7, and Windows 8: \My Music\iTunes\ The full path would look something like this: C:\Users\USERNAME\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\ The precise directory path may vary slightly in Windows, don’t be afraid to explore the My Music > iTunes directories until you find the content you need. Extra Tips - Upscale Movies With AI in an Easy WayHow to upscale the old and low-res video or film? To solve this problem, you can turn to a capable tool - AVCLabs Video Enhancer AI, which can help you optimize the brightness, saturation, and contrast of videos to get a better result. With this AI-based video enhancer, you can get better video quality and bring a satisfactory result. And all the enhanced work is done by AI automatically so you are not required any skill. Can you download purchased movies from iTunes?For iTunes purchased movies, you have unlimited access to download previous movie purchases any time you like. But for iTunes movie rentals, you can only download it to only one device at a time. And the good thing is, if your iTunes rentals are not expired, you can download it for many times.
Can movies purchased on iTunes be burned to DVD?Can I Burn a DVD from iTunes with iTunes? You can only burn an iTunes playlist (a list of songs) to disc within the iTunes, but the movies purchased from the iTunes Store, the shared playlist, the Radio, the Library, and your iPod can't be burned to DVD directly.
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