Robocopy Exclude file types

We are building a script to copy data from a laptop to our servers using robocopy, but we dont want to backup movie files and pictures. is there a way to have robocopy exclude specific file types?

Hi,
/xf <FileName>[ ...]
Excludes files that match the specified names or paths. Note that FileName can include wildcard characters (* and ?).
e.g. robocopy <Source> <Destination> /xf *.jpg
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