VIDEO MATERIAL CLIPPING METHOD AND APPARATUS

A video material clipping method and an apparatus, the method comprising: acquiring a plurality of video materials, and determining a video split-screen template; and displaying on a video editing track a plurality of video track segments formed on the basis of the plurality of video materials, and displaying a video editing image which is formed by video images of the plurality of video track segments according to the video split-screen template, so as to display in a split-screen mode the video images of the plurality of video track segments by means of a plurality of split-screen areas in the video editing image, wherein the corresponding time line intervals of the plurality of video track segments on the video editing track are at least partially overlapped, thereby ensuring that the finally obtained video has a split-screen video splicing effect. By means of a video clipping tool, the method achieves rapid split-screen splicing of a plurality of video materials without manual adjustment by users, thereby