1. An apparatus comprising: a first processing circuit configured to generate one or more motion vector residuals in response to one or more macroblocks of an input signal; and a second processing circuit configured to convert between (i) the motion vector residual and (ii) a binarized representation of the motion vector residual, wherein the binarized representation of the motion vector residual comprises (i) a binarized representation of an absolute value of the motion vector residual and (ii) a binarized representation of a sign of the motion vector residual when the motion vector residual has a non-zero value, wherein the binarized representation of the sign is located after an end of the binarized representation of the absolute value of the motion vector residual.