Imported video file not showing up

Hey guys,
I recently upgraded to a new MacBook Air and began with a clean install. Today I was trying to import a video file in iMovie. It was an HD quality movie, just under 2 hours long, an m4v file, about 2,5 GB. I started importing it, and it took forever (like, 6 hours or something). When it was finally done, there was nothing to see in iMovie. I had made a new event to which it should've been added but it just wasn't there. I went to the Finder to check the 'Movie' folder because that's where the files are copied to, and it was empty as well.
However, here's the strange part. While importing, I noticed that the free space on my Macintosh HD started to drop. After the failed importing, 15 GB of space was gone, but oddly enough I couldn't find a file of that size anywhere.
So, what do I do? My hard drive space is precious to me because I have to work with a relatively small SSD and suddenly, 15 GB is gone. I can't recover the 15 GB because I can't find the file that should've been there after importing in iMovie.
Thanks for taking the time to read and help!
Mitch

Da Mouse wrote:
… I can't recover the 15 GB because I can't find the file …
while in Finder, hit cmd-F
for 'criteria' select
File Size larger than 14GB
and
Visibility Both
.... this should find that ghost
do you try to import an iTunes purchased video?
that is a NoGo .....

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