Smart Playlist for Music Videos

I've fought and fought with iTunes and I cannot figure out how to make a Smart Playlist that JUST HAS MUSIC videos.
I'd like to have a list that just has my music videos in it, but I want it to be a smart playlist so I do not have to keep updating it.
Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
mike

I'm think you may be misunderstanding what I'm suggesting. I'm don't mean the "video kind" in the Options panel of the Get Info window. I mean the "Kind" located in the Summary panel.
Each file in iTunes has a "Kind" designation. For example music you buy from the iTMS is Kind: Protected AAC Audio File; the video's I got when I purchased Neil Young's latest album are Kind: QuickTime Move File. The pilot episode of Conviction I download is Kind: Protected MPEG-4 Video File. I suspect this last one is what kind of files the music video's are. To find out:
1. Click a video.
2. Pull down File > Get Info (Apple+I on the keyboard).
3. Click the Summary tab if it is not already selected (Apple+1 on the keyboard).
4. See what "Kind" of file it is by looking at the top of the left-hand column.
5. Click the OK button.
Now that you know that is it time to create the Smart Playlist.
1. Pull down File > New Smart Playlist (AppleOptionN on the keyboard).
2. Make the appropriate menu selections so the criteria are "Kind IS Protected MPEG-4 video file." If your videos are more than one "Kind" repeat this step as necessary.
3. Click OK.
4 Give the playlist whatever name you want to give it. All your music videos will now be in this one playlist.
However, since you want just music video's in the playlist you may still have to "do something" to make sure the TV shows don't show up in the playlist. For example you could put "tv show" in the comments of those files and have the playlist exclude that criteria.
In general Smart Playlists can only work on the data that is in the Summary panel, and the Info panel.

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