Smart Folders Getting Less Results Than Spotlight?

As the title suggests, I'm finding I'm getting far less results in my smart folder then when I do a separate Spotlight search for the exact same things. The difference is quite drastic, for example a spotlight search will return 2700 movies, where my smart folder will return 77 movies.
I can't find any similarity in the files selected either, both local and external, all kinds of formats, mpeg4, avi, mov, wmv.
Anyone explain this to me? or is anyone else getting similar/different results.

Sooo I'm back putting my foot in my mouth again. It appears when I saved my Smart Folder some keywords slipped in which were causing the irregular results. I wasn't aware how to even view the Smart Folder criteria until I checked google and learned I had to click the Action button in the toolbar to view it.
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Message was edited by: Didsayan

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