Disclosed are a multimedia poster generation method and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a poster generation instruction; acquiring a poster resource, the poster resource including a plurality of background files and a lyric file of a multimedia file, and the multimedia file being a multimedia file selected by a user; acquiring a background file to be shared that is selected by the user from the plurality of background files, and acquiring lyric information to be shared that is selected by the user from the lyric file; and generating a multimedia poster of the multimedia file according to the lyric information to be shared and the background file to be shared.