Can't get smart playlist to do what I want

I'm trying to create a smart playlist for my Mac related videos (MacWorld, Apple etc). This is what my smart playlist looks like:
Match any rule
Artist contains MacWorld
Artist contains ehMac.ca
Artist contains Apple Inc.
Album is not ILife '08 Sound Effects
Video Kind is Movie
The playlist still includes audio from MacWorld and audio from the iLife '08 Sound Effects (I imported them into iTunes as an album). How can I get my smart playlist to just display related video?

Problem is that matching ANY rule means if a track in your library matches even ONE SINGLE rule of your Smart Playlist, it will get added. So the last rule doesn't exclude non-videos if one of the previous rules matches an audio file.
I am not at home now to play on iTunes and try to come up more clever, but you could create two playlists, where Smart Playlist #1 is what you have now (either with or without that last rule). And then a new Smart PL where the rules match ALL and the two rules are the last rule in your previous one where it has to be a video AND that last playlist.
But maybe someone can come up with something better. If I think about it, I will look tonight since I can not recall all the various Smart rules available.
Oh wait, just thought of something. One of the rules can be that the type is NOT {xxx} where XXX is the audio file type like MP3, AAC etc. or how ever the rules call them up.
Patrick

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