A method includes screening, by a video-clip screening module in a video description model, a plurality of video proposal clips acquired from a video to be analyzed, to acquire a plurality of video clips suitable for description. The plural video proposal clips acquired from the video to be analyzed may be screened by the video-clip screening module to acquire the plural video clips suitable for description; and then, each video clip is described by a video-clip describing module, thus avoiding description of all the video proposal clips, only describing the screened video clips which have strong correlation with the video and are suitable for description, removing the interference of the description of the video clips which are not suitable for description in the description of the video, guaranteeing the accuracy of the final descriptions of the video clips, and improving the quality of the descriptions of the video clips.