Add a little magic to your productions quickly and easily by using video star overlays and backgrounds made by professionals. In this roundup, we’ll show you 20 of our favourites, including some fantastic free star overlays.
5 Best Sparkly Video Star Overlays & Backgrounds From Envato Elements
To get you started, here are five of our favourite video star backgrounds from Envato Elements, where you can download and use as many as you like for one monthly subscription.
Featured Stars Overlay: 4K Glitter Stars Overlay
This cute, sparkling star motion graphic is perfect to use no matter what video software you edit in. Featuring warm orange stars on a black background, the clip is 20 seconds long and comes in 4K (4096 x 2304) resolution at 30 FPS. Be aware, though, that it doesn’t loop or use an alpha channel.
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2. Colourful Star Overlay Pack
There are four cute and colourful star overlays for video to choose from in this motion graphics pack. Each one is 4 seconds long and, although they don’t use an alpha channel, they’re on a black background—so you can change the blending mode to use them in a way that looks transparent!
3. Stars and Sparks Pack
Although we’re featuring this video stars template for DaVinci Resolve, it’s also available for After Effects and Premiere Pro. There’s full colour control so you can adjust it to suit your project, and it comes in 3840 x 2160 resolution. There’s even a video included to help you if you get stuck.
4. Star Particles Motion Graphics
This is a 1920 x 1080 clip of a swirling, looping, spinning… you get the idea… nebular. In a mix of stunning cool to warm purples, it’s incredibly hypnotic and would make a fantastic video ‘star’ background for projects with a space or sci-fi theme, or even a glamorous video for an award ceremony.
5. Awards Backgrounds for Final Cut Pro
There are a whole range of star backgrounds for your video in this template set for Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion. You get different-size stars and sparkles, and the ‘falling’ animation can happen at different rates. You can use these time and again without the results feeling too similar.
15 Best Free Sparkly Video Star Overlays & Backgrounds
Did you know that over on MixKit, there are thousands of free video (and more!) resources for you to explore? And if you already use editing software like DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro, then you don’t need to worry about them being compatible, as they’re motion graphics and video clips. Here are some of our favourite free star overlays and video star backgrounds for you to choose from.
6. Spectacular Fluorescent Coloured Nebulae in Universe
Try a beautiful fluorescent coloured nebular that would be brilliant as a star background for your video, or even as part of the titles or intro sequence.
7. Double Exposure of Starry Space
This clip is available up to 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution and features a ‘double exposure’ of stars with bright spots and galaxies. The shot has some movement towards the stars, with an overlay of liquid on top.
8. Impressive Space Nebula
Here’s a slowly moving shot with stars coming towards us, and a lovely dash of electric blue in the distance: a perfect video star background.
9. Infinite Space Covered in Stars
Something a little different, and very useful if you’re making vertical video. This star overlay clip is available in full HD (1080 x 1920) so would be great for Instagram and TikTok social videos.
10. Milky Way in the Cosmos
This free star background comes in 720p, for personal use only, but the great news is that if you’d like a bigger resolution, it’s available in 4K over on Envato Elements.
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16. Stars Floating in Green Haze
As overlays for video with stars go, this one has a slightly eerie feel due to the background colour. It’s available in 720p and for personal use, but you can grab the 4K version with an Envato Elements subscription.
17. Circular Star-Shaped Panel of Lights
You might need sunglasses to view this one as it’s very bright! Flashing, rotating stars make this a fun video overlay background to use in your next project.
18. Glitter Stars and Snowflakes
Not as seasonally specific as the title might make it sound, this free star video clip is a mix of falling stars and particles, with twinkling bokeh in the background.
19. 3D Rotating Orange Neon Stars
Another very bright stars background video, this one comes with a kaleidoscope-like movement in and out.
20. Golden Stars in 3D
Last, but certainly not least, is this 3D star floating video clip, available in 720p or in 4K from Envato Elements.
Free is great—we love a freebie—but you can’t always get exactly what you want or need with free resources. You might require a different license, or a higher-quality version, or something customisable, or more options. For those times, you should check out Envato Elements, where you can find everything you need for your video projects, including video templates, overlays, backgrounds, music tracks, and so much more.
Best of all, you’ll never need to worry about going over budget as everything is included in one monthly subscription, so you can download and use as much as you like.
Envato’s AI Search
We get that it can be hard to find exactly what you need, even with in-depth search options, so we’ve got something even better… AI Search! With this tool, you can describe your project or write a brief, and it’ll search everything Elements has to offer and find the best assets to help you.
As a very basic example based on this post, I’ve told the tool that we’re looking for video star overlays for our project and that it should have an alpha channel, loop, and be available in HD. You can see from the top four suggestions (it suggests more than four) that it’s choosing overlays that have stars featured in them. The more specific you are, the better the suggestions will be for you.
If you don’t quite know what you want yet, that’s not a worry either. Just use the AI Search to spark your imagination by suggesting creative assets, and you can rest easy that it isn’t generating any AI resources itself—all our assets are made by creative professionals.
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Conclusion
If you’re looking to add a bit of a sparkle to your next video production, we hope that we’ve given you plenty of choices to be able to do it. Check out the free options from MixKit, but remember, if you can’t find what you need or you need a little more flexibility, then try Envato Elements, where you’ll find thousands of assets that you can use for one monthly subscription.