Hidden cache files (imovie) - lost 60gb memory - can you help me recover?

Ok so here is my problem. Using the Panasonic GH2 for filming and decided to import the .mov files to my external drives via imovie, easy right? Over the period of some 800gb of imports I slowly lost 60+ gb of drive space that I have not been able to recover and am now in dire need of deleting as I am down to zero drive space on my main drive.
What I have done:
Pulled and deleted all imovie cache files (i.e. user/movies/imovie...etc.)
Deleted a my .plist
Deleted all user cache files
Deleted imovie files from iphoto library
There are probably other items I am leaving out, but I have gone to great lengths to fine this cache of thumbnails or some strange hidden series of files that imovie produces for back up or something. Need help here.
Can someone tell me what other measures I should consider for recovering this lost space???
Thanks a million!

EUREKA!!!
I don't know how old this post is but I hope this will be helpful for anyone who stumbles around here.
So, I had the same issue with phantom memory being guzzled up by some unknown videos that I could not find and iMovie was the culprit. So with that being said, the short answer that will most probably fix this is to delete your projects. Even if you erased the clips that you used, the program seems to keep the cache and encrypting, etc of every video you made with these projects. For me, I only had 2 projects on the mac and I kept deleting the clips and adding new ones. 1 of them I was using for months and it had 100 GB of data stored within that 1 project!!
I know that this may be a pain since you lose your format if you make videos regularly but unfortunately, this is the only way that I found to delete this dead space. The better fix would be to know how to get rid of the dead data without deleting the projects. My movies are usually very small and have a simple format so it doesn't bother me much to have to delete my project after I make my clips.
Another thing, the clips you import to iMovie stay in a semi-hidden area and it keeps ALL your clips there. You can find these clips by going to File - Reveal in Event. You can also go to Reveal in Finder as well but they are the same clips so you only need to delete them from 1 of these 2 areas.
If this option is grayed out, go to All Events first, select the event(s) and then see if the option is now available.
I hope this helps!

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