Prime Video desktop app is the only one that allows you to download movies and TV shows on a computer(both Mac and Windows) among the popular video streaming services. You may be curious: Where are the Amazon video downloads stored? Is it possible to transfer them to external hard drive to save computer space? Actually, the Prime Video for Windows 10/11 app do allow you to save downloaded movies and TV shows to an external hard drive, you just need to set it in several steps. However, Mac users are not that lucky. Fortunately, you can use Pazu Amazon Video Downloader to download Prime Video movies and TV shows on your Mac or PC in a common format like MP4 and move those downloaded movies and TV shows to an external hard drive. This not only frees up space on your computer but also ensures your Prime Video movies and TV shows never expire.
The Prime Video for Windows 10/11 app allows you to select where to save downloaded titles. So you can change the Prime Video download location to an external hard drive directly within the app. The steps are as follows:
1. Click the Settings icon in the Prime Video Windows app and choose Change storage location.
2. You will be directed to the Windows Settings app.
3. Here you need to search Prime Video for Windows software. Click the … icon and choose Move.
4. Move the Prime Video app to your external hard drive. After that, movies and TV shows you downloaded from Prime Video will also be saved to that drive.
Although you can download Prime Video movies and TV shows to an external hard drive with the Prime Video Windows app, the downloads are encrypted, and you can only watch them within the Prime Video app. You won’t be able to play the downloaded files using other media players or devices.
Besides, as the Prime Video app is also moved to an external hard drive, you need to connect it to your computer whenever you watch Prime Video, otherwise the Prime Video app won’t be launched.
Unlike Amazon Prime Video Windows app, the Prime Video Mac app doesn’t allow you to download videos to external hard drive. If you only have Mac but want to download Amazon Prime Movies to External Hard Drive, you will need Pazu Amazon Prime Video Downloader.
Pazu Amazon Video Downloader is developed to download any Prime Video movies and TV shows to MP4 and save them to your local drive, external hard drive or USB devices. After that you can play the downloaded videos offline anywhere you want without Prime Video app.
Download Prime Video movies & TV shows to MP4/MKV in Full HD quality.
Pazu Amazon Video Downloader is able to download:
Features:
To get started, first you need to download, install and run the Pazu Amazon Video Downloader app on your Mac/Windows. Select AMAZON and sign in with your Amazon account.
Click the Settings icon > “Register” and enter your registration code to unlock the full version if you have purchased a registration. If you haven’t, go ahead with the free trial version.
Select the Search tab on top and enter the title of the movie or TV show you want to download in the search box, then click the search icon.
Or you can copy and paste the URL of a Prime Video movie or TV show to the search box.
Connect your external hard drive to the computer. Click the Settings icon in the top right corner and set your external hard drive as the output folder. Thus Pazu Amazon Video Downloader can directly save Prime Video movies to hard drive.
If you don’t want to connect your external hard drive to computer during downloading to avoid overheating issues, you can download Prime Videos to your computer local drive first, and then transfer the downloaded movies/TV shows to external hard drive.
You can also change video formats, video codec, audio languages, or subtitle languages.
For a single movie, click the 
button to download it directly.
For TV shows with multiple episodes, click the button and then select the episodes you want to download.
Before downloading, you can also click 
to choose subtitles and audio tracks for each episode. Audio and subtitle languages in Settings only show the 6 common languages. Here you can choose any language from whatever the movie or TV show provides.
Then click Download.
To find the content you’ve downloaded, click the History icon at the top.
Immediately, Pazu Amazon Video Downloader will save the movies/TV shows to hard drive for you.
On Mac, you can download Prime Video movies/TV shows to MP4 and save to external hard drive directly with Pazu Amazon Video Downloader. On Windows, you can change the app’s location to external hard drive. If you want to keep Amazon downloads forever, you can also use Pazu Amazon Video Downloader for Windows, similar steps like on Mac.
Download Amazon Prime Video movies and TV shows to MP4/MKV on your PC/Mac