Are you trying to move forward 1 frame after hitting stop, or use the mouse to click somewhere? You certainly don't need the mouse to step forwards or backwards as a secondary action. As well, yes there is a way of using AHK to program mouse movement. I used to have a macro to create freeze frames, and programmed the mouse to do the drop down menus

Once again, a macro would be your friend.

It has always been an interesting "ability" of Avid to move tracks around, but their absolute layer in space will remain the same. I'm not sure when this is usefull, but you have certainly found when it can be detrimental.

Use a streamdeck and make a macro.

I've just masterd a show where i had to do a (what i would call) regular 5.1 + stereo delivery, as well as an Interleaved stereo delivery. Regular, as pointed out earlier, is setting you output to direct, and each channel goes in order of the timeline. In my case L,R,C,LFE,Ls,Rs, MixL, MixR For Interleaved, and had to create several stereo tracks

Thats true. Any of the cheaper cards that don't have breakout cables will present this issue. I have 1 3d extreme card with breakout cables, so it has xlr outputs My other card doesnt. So the audio travels down the sdi cable to the monitor. I then take an audio feed out of the monitor back to my mixer and on to my speakers. I have no sync issues

If you have your original project, at it's original state, you could also do a batch reimport, and point to the clips to be reimported. That should repopulate your existing offline clips back into online clips. Select your offline media, right click...batch import. Avid will ask where the clips are. But Pat's method is probably best considering

Any Blackmagic pcie card with an sdi spiggot should work for you. You could also use one of their external devices, depending on your setup...but yes a 4k mini will work with Avid. You will need to install Blackmagics driver package, which is called desktop video. As for the Kona 3...sorry i quit using mine about 10 years ago, so i have no idea if it

I either link and edit, or transcode footage to low res in Resolve and bring that footage to Avid via a database import. It is a well documented workflow, and the transcode time in Resolve is way way way faster than transcoding in Avid. Once done the edit, link to camera raw in Avid, and relink your sequence to camera raw to send to Color. Again, a

It is pretty limited as far as audio goes. I use it in conjuction with an Avid Dock, and an Avid S1. Yes, you can control your faders with it, for clip or auto recording control. Pan Controls work as well. Thats about it. A lot of those other items you see are a Protools item. What is it actually more useful for is the touch screen controls to add shortcuts