Why is my hard disk full?

Hi all,
When I go to 'about this mac' - 'more info' - 'storage' - it says i have 60 odd gigs of video on the laptop.
In my itunes library I have about ten but I dont know where the other 50 are?
I use iMovie a lot but have exported my final projects and put them on an external hard drive and deleted all the raw footage from iPhoto. I now have no video in iPhoto and no projects in iMovie but still have this fifty gigs somewhere?
Does the mac store this deleted video somewhere else that I need to delete?
When I am in finder and go to the Video bit it is empty. It doesnt even show the music videos and shows I have in iTunes.
I have emptied the trash and restarted several times but still no luck.
Is there an app that can tell me where these video files are hidden? I really need that fifty gigs back...
Cheers,
Katie

Well i dont know if the disk inventory x automatically updates or if you need to reopen it for it to reload to see if the 50gigs is still there. In my experience it is very accurate, if you wait a while i can run it on mine and see if i can more accurately and then come back here and tell you, but right now i am having troubles with migration assistant so it might take a while for me to get back to you on how to see, another option is to go to finder go to your hard drive and sort by size, click on biggest, sort by size in that folder, click on biggest and so on...

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