1. A method comprising: retrieving information indicative of a type of scene transition from an encoded bitstream, the video sequence comprising at least a first scene and a second scene, the second scene comprising a scene transition from the first scene, wherein the scene transition comprises a number of frames and the scene transition is one of a number of scene transition types, wherein the scene transition types comprise at least one of gradual scene transition types; and identifying the type of scene transition based on the information for error concealment in a decoding apparatus.