Issue with amount of Hard Disk allocated to User

I have recently come across an unexpected issue that I have managed to work around but not in a way that is particularly satisfactory.
Using iMovie I was alarmed to see that on uploading about an hour of video that I was rapidly running out of hard disk space. This was odd as I had previously simply used Migration Assistant to migrate from my old iMac with a 30Gb drive to a new iMac with a 500Gb drive and as far as I could see my tape was using a maximum of 13Gb. ie I should have about 400Gb as a minimum available on my Hard Drive. Thinking it must be a glitch that iMovie was incorrectly reading the amount of space available i continued with what I was doing only for the whole thing to stop due to lack of available space.
Having checked my hard drive I realised that I did have the space however my user account (File Vaulted Protected) only has 10Gb allocated to it. By moving the file out of my user account to the general drive (through copying first and then deleting the original) I was able to continue the project as well as regain disk space in my user account.
It would appear that in using file vault I have in effect partitioned my disk which was not what I had anticipated; I am now in the dubious position of having to work on very large files outside of security provided by File Vault.
Have I got this right and if so is there someway that I can allocate more space to my user account? (I am the only one using the iMac and so having the whole HD available to my user account would be ideal).
Thanks in advance for any help.

VK I tried the solution you suggested but it would not allow me to turn off File Vault. The message I got was that I had insufficient hard disk space to turn off File Vault (It states that I need 76Gb of space but at the moment I have less than 6Gb available - this is in spite of the fact I have 350Gb available overall on my Hard Drive.
I suspect the only way I am going to solve this is through radical measures, however if anyone else has come across this before and solved it your input would be appreciated.

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