Effect Builder AE is a new development kit for creating Adobe After Effects™ plug-ins from Quartz Compositions on MacOS X.

Quartz Composer, delivered freely by Apple, is a graphics development environment that allows users to build complex and hardware accelerated image effects. With Effect Builder AE users can transform Quartz Compositions to After Effects plug-ins and thus take advantage from the rich features and hardware acceleration of Quartz Compositions through OpenGL.