Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for processing a video. The method may include: acquiring object regions obtained by performing object detection on a target video frame, a type of an object in each of the object regions being a preset type; determining, for an object region in the acquired object regions, in response to determining that the object region satisfies a preset condition, that the object region is a non-ROI; using an object region other than the non-ROI in the object regions of the target video frame as a ROI; and acquiring a quantization parameter change corresponding to each ROI, and encoding the target video frame based on the quantization parameter change.