How to make a trailing light animation like new Nikita TV show logo background

Hi folks. I'm looking all over for some help on this and thought maybe some of you could point me in the right direction or even tell me how to do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLkkxvkj24
In this video at 45 seconds you will see lights in the backgroud.
This is what I'm looking to do.
If anyone can provide ideas on how to do it in Flash, I'd really appreciate the help.
Thanks!!

That's called a lens flare effect. It's really just animating a static picture of the light source and some smaller dots in reverse formation.
You can see the main elements here, the background light on the left and the dots of light starting on the right.
As the light goes from left to right, notice the light dots cross the opposite way from right to left by the end:
Now the light source is on the right and the dots on the left. The dots vary in size, color and speed but ultimately that's all you need to do to pull it off. The faster you do it the less the user will analyze it.
Photoshop has built in lens flares but ultimately the light is just a gradient, white to blue to black in this case.

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