Missing over 600 gb of HD space.

I have a late 2013 iMac, running on OS X Yosemite 10.10.1, with a 1TB HD, and in "About This Mac", it says I have over 600 GB of "Movies" in my storage. There is absolutely no way. I have gone into almost every folder, and used the "Get Info", and there is absolutely no folders with that much space used. I have deleted everything I don't use, and am in the process of moving all my pictures to my iCloud. I don't know how to figure out where this HD space went! Can someone please help!!??

Can I ask what software you usually use on your Mac?
I had a similar issue in that my HDD was nearly full, but going into finder and adding up the folder sizes left 300Gb unaccounted for. The main difference with you is that my unnacounted-for storage showed up in the 'others' section rather than under 'movies'. After much screwing around, I discovered that 'versions' was the cause of my issue – these file snapshots are stored locally, not on your Time Machine drive.
Here's the full thread for you to trawl through - Hard Drive nearly full, but can't see why.
Long story short – I downloaded OnyX and deleted the versions and claimed back over 300Gb of space. In my case, the versions all came from iBook Author, as that is the only app I use that supports versioning.
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