Movie file completely disappeared

This morning I tried to use QuickTime's share to YouTube feature, which I have used successfully many times in the past. I did a quick trim of extraneous footage at the beginning and end of my video, which I always do, then saved the file. Then I tried to do the share, and got a message saying, "cannot be converted." I tried canceling that to no avail. The message stayed, and I could do nothing more with it or anything else in QuickTime, not even quit the program.
I force quit and went to Finder. The file, which had definitely been there post-save, disappeared. It still shows up in system Recent Items and in QuickTime's recent items. When I try to access it via recent items, nothing happens. I tried restarting my Mac, to no avail. I checked trash. Nothing. Did a spotlight search. Nothing.
What happened, and how do I restore my missing video file?

I had this same thing happen.
I was going crazy.  I discovered this program and used it on my work PC and was able to get the file off my Flip camera even though it was "erased". Good luck
https://www.piriform.com/recuva

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