star field in AE 7.0??/

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

You can create a white solid, and then use the effects CC StarBurst.

Then play with the grid spacing and size to get smaller stars further apart from eachother, and set the speed to 0, so the stars don’t move.

Personally, I think you’re better off doing it in photoshop – flamingpear.com has several cheep photoshop plug-ins for creating space: Glitterato (Starfield backgrounds with space like nebula clouds, LunarCell (for planets), and SolarCell (for sun-like objects).

Oh, and you can even turn the Lunar Cell images into spherical maps that could be used with the effect CC Sphere.

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If you do it in Photoshop, make several different layers each with it’s own size “star” dot. That will let you use it later for simulating depth if you ever want to use it in a 3D comp. Also by making it in Photoshop, you can use it in any later comp you want. All it takes is minor manipulation of orientation to “not have the same starfield in every background”.