Twinkling Stars, make them sparkle

[Justin Productions]

Do you want them to move?

Do you want to control them with a camera?

Are you searching for a particle emitter?

Justin Productions
Tangerin01@hotmail.com
Adobe After Effects 6.0 Professional

[Glen Jennings]

I don’t need moving or “shooting” stars just some small twinkling points in the background of a still of northern lights

[Ryan Hill]

Duplicate the stars you want to twinkle. Play with the contrast to get them as white as possible and the sky as black as possible. Duplicate it again. Apply a directional blur to both layers, at 90 degrees to one another. Precomp the two together. Add some sort of wave motion as a track matte. Possibly animate the directional blurs so they rotate a little bit. Do more than two blurred layers if you want more points to your stars.