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Author - Mathias Moehl
Mathias Möhl is cofounder of mamoworld.com, a company with a strong focus on the development of extensions for After Effects and Premiere Pro. His most popular developments comprise the After Effects tools Squash & Stretch, MochaImport+, iExpressions and Auto Lip-Sync as well as BeatEdit for Premiere Pro. Mathias is also an experienced trainer. He released more than 100 free video tutorials on mamoworld.com and has been invited to present at events like Animago and the After Effects World Conference. In an earlier life, Mathias did a PhD in Computer Science (which got the top rating “summa cum laude”) and as a researcher in Bioinformatics, he published more than 15 articles in international, scientific conferences and journals.
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