Unable to recover source video clips from Time Machine/Trash

I have an imac. It has the latest version of mavericks, time machine and Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5. By mistake, some source video clips (mpeg) where deleted from inside Premiere Pro. I tried recovering them from Trash / Time machine. But no luck. it is as though those files never existed on the computer. Please advice as to how those files could be recovered from the computer.

I am sorry to confuse you. Here are the facts -
-- the files have been backed up for the past 6 months.
-- by accident, my 7 year old deleted some files while in premiere pro. He was on it for about 1 minute.
-- I shut down premiere pro and the computer. Premiere pro did seem to give me some trouble while shutting down. It seemed to have hung up. But, was able to shut down the computer.
-- I rebooted the computer, open premiere pro and my project. The system was not able to find the source files.
-- The files disappeared from Finder. Then I went to Time machine and still no files.
What do I want? I want to recover those files. I am scratching my head here, the files disappeared from the original folder,  they are not in trash and there is no trace of them in time machine!

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