Recovering iPhoto video files

I recently discovered that all the videos that I had been archieving to an external HD from iPhoto are not the actual files but, from what I read, references to a database (most of these files show file sizes in the 10-600kb range).
I would archieve the videos by navigating in the finder to the files themselves instead of dragging them out of iPhoto. You may ask why, and I am not sure for some reason I just thought it would be safer to drag "original" files from the finder...
Once I would archieve the videos I would wipe them clean from my computer to free up space.
Is there any way to get these back, either with time machine or some other crazy sudo command line?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
jason

The way to get video from iPhoto is to export:
File -> Export
and set the Kind to Original
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
Other than that, it sounds like you've corrupted your library and deleted your own data. Restoring from your back up is the only solution to that.

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