Ran out of hard drive space while importing AVCHD footage... cant delete?

I was importing about 6 hours of AVCHD footage I shot, however my macbook pro ran out of hard drive space about halfway through the import. It looks like iMovie got confused, and just hung. I forced quit the application, the video footage that was imported is now NOT showing up in iMovie, or in the Movies folder. However the file must be somewhere because I have zero space free.
Does anyone know where this file could be, and how I could nix it?
Thanks!

I also tried setting up a smart folder showing all files created today- it does not show it.

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