Movie file "disappeared" while muxing

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I know the video file went somewhere, because I had 115GB on my internal drive before the muxing and I now have 95GB, but I absolutely can't find it. I've used Finder to search by File Size (greater than 10GB) or date modified (today) and I get no results. I've also emptied the trash.
How can I find this rogue file that's gobbling up valuable HD space?

To locate large files, you can use Spotlight. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.

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