An apparatus includes a processor that is configured to decode, as a first group, coefficients of a first row and a first column of a transform block using a first zig-zag scan order; and decode at least a subset of remaining coefficients of the transform block using a second scan order. Executable instructions in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium include instructions to code, as a first group, coefficients of a first row and a first column of the transform block using a first scan order, where the transform block includes the coefficients of the first row, coefficients of the first column, and remaining coefficients; partition the remaining coefficients into a remaining first row and a remaining first column and other coefficients; code the remaining first row and the remaining first column using a second scan order; and code the other coefficients using a third scan order.