Incorrect QuickTime file size shown in Finder

I have a few QuickTime movies that I moved out of Aperture in order to move back into the newest iPhoto. When I attempted to sync my iPhoto library with my iPhone, the videos would not sync, so I investigated further and found that while they play perfectly fine under both iPhoto and in QuickTime 7 and QuickTime X, the file size in Finder is showing each movie as only a few KB in size, when in fact they are dozens of MBs in size.
What the heck is going on? Permissions repair did nothing, I can't think of what else to try.

I would suspect you moved the .mov file, but at some point in processing and saving things you have failed to note that the .mov file should be saved as a "self contained" movie, so that the actual movie content is left somewhere on your hard-drive. The .mov file will play on the computer, because it is pointing to the location of the content, which is accessed and used, but when you move (or try to) the .mov file, the content is left behind on the hard drive, and only the container is moved. Thus there is nothing TO play in the new location, there is just the container with no content.
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