Abstract: A video material editing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of video materials; and determining a video split-screen template. By exhibiting a plurality of video track clips formed based on the plurality of video materials on a video editing track, and displaying a video editing image formed from video images of the plurality of video track clips according to a video split-screen template, video images of the plurality of video track clips are exhibited through a plurality of split regions in the video editing image in a split-screen manner; timeline intervals corresponding to the plurality of video track clips on the video editing track at least partially overlap with each other, to render that the finally obtained video has a video split-screen splice effect.