The invention provides a video editing method and device, wherein the method includes detecting a human face in a video to be edited frame by frame; judging whether the detected human face is a target human face; when the detected human face is the target human face, determining a video frame to which the target human face belongs to be a start frame of editing; starting from the start frame, tracking the target human face frame by frame according to the degree of confidence of appearance of the target human face in each video frame, and determining an end frame of editing; and editing the video to be edited according to the start frame and the end frame, thereby obtaining an edited video. The video editing method and device provided by the invention can solve the technical problem that when the background of a film and television video is disordered, the resolution ratio is low or the front face of a target figure is shielded, the target face in key frames cannot be identified through the prior art, causing loss of part of video content containing the target figure.