AVI should have worked, just that you need a player that's capable of playing ".avi" files, Fcheck won't be able to play it.

A program like Video Lancer (VLC) should be able to play .avi files.

If you are planning to composite the rendered files or fix each frame individually (after rednering) b 4 you make it into one whole compoistion animation, then you would use programs like Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, etc. to do that.