How to detect video files in Aperture Applescript?

Hi,
I'm writing Applescript for exporting images based on certain criteria. I do not want to include my video files in the export. How can I determine in the Applescript that a "image version" is actually a video file? Or even better, is it possible to get a list of "image version" items from an album excluding video files?
My starting point is to get "every image version" as below, and this returns also video files (which I do not want):
tell myAlbum
set myAllImages to every image version as list
end tell
Aperture Applescript reference doc does not contain anything with words "video" or "movie", so I'm quite stuck here...

Hi,
the aperture suit in apple script does not know about media kinds, but once you have selected the image files like you planned, you could use the Finder suit to parse the file name and return the file extension. If the extension is "mpg" or "mov" or any other movie type then exclude it from your list.
set myfile to -- whatever you select in Aperture
tell application "Finder"
set theext to the name extension of myfile
return theext
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