Imac/imovie/Lacie-file vault seems to be deleted. Am I screwed?

Hello all,
    I was editing a movie in iMac, but when I went to finalize the project, it told me I didn't have enough memory. I checked and re-checked and I could not find what was using it up. My movie/photos etc totaled a litte over 100 gigs out of 1 TB. I downloaded a couple of programs to see what was taking up the space but finally found out that 719 gigs was being used by a huge file called "bands." I deleted the file and now when I try to log in I am told that file vault cannot log me in at this time. I have been trying for two days to log in. I was connected to Lacie 6TB but upon disconnecting the size of the file did not decrease.
Am I screwed? Are there any solutions? Apple refuses to even acknowledge my mail, so I assume this is a problem they don't want to hear about. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Matthew D. Heines
www.heinessight.com

Thak you.
I am running Mountain Lion and I have a 3.4 GHz intel Core i7
That means your model is "27-in Mid-2011 iMac." If you add that to your profile and select OS 10.8, you should get faster help because people don't have to ask you a question before they can answer.
I'm asking the Hosts to move you into the forum for current iMacs. The one you found is for pre-2006 iMacs and gets less traffic. Not your fault--the labeling here is bad and confusing
You may also want to review the MAc OS 10.8 forums here:
OS X Mountain Lion
to see if missing space is happening to others.

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