A method of decoding a bitstream by an electronic device is provided. The electronic device receives the bitstream and determines, from the bitstream, a prediction mode enabled flag and an affine enabled flag both corresponding to one or more image frames. The electronic device determines, from the bitstream, a maximum index corresponding to the one or more image frames when the affine enabled flag is true. An index value of the maximum index is in an index range determined based on the prediction mode enabled flag. The electronic device determines a maximum number of zero or more subblock-based merging motion vector prediction (MVP) candidates based on the maximum index when the affine enabled flag is true. The electronic device reconstructs the one or more image frames based on the maximum number of the zero or more subblock-based merging MVP candidates.