This awesome Blender file comes with a ready-to-animate emitter that emits particles. When rendered, it looks like After Effects style light streaks! All the nodes are already setup, all you have to do is animate the cube that is the controller for emitter!
Thanks for downloading!
Here is a tutorial on how to set the light streaks up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ_YTkGz-Ok
Great tut, as far as the comment above,,,makes sense, but the link to file is dead. Great work and thinks.