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This Recommended Practice defines constraints on the VC-2 video compression standard to provide a mezzanine level compression coding. It defines coding constraints such that source video of 1920 x 1080 pixels using 4:2:2 sampling at 50, 60 and 60/1.001 frames per second can be compressed by a factor of approximately 2.5 to 1 resulting in a compressed bitrate that permits carriage over a single-link SDI operating at 1.5 Gb/s. It also defines an application-specific level value corresponding to these constraints.