Rendering issues

I couldn't render my timeline, called support and they reset my sequence settings to mirosoft avi, and it worked once, I can get it to render by using the cineform setting or quicktime but after rendering the video it's choppy and laggy, tried just rendering a single clip from a samsung phone (mp4) and it wouldn't work either, I have had zero trouble until all of a sudden it no longer worked,  I can take the same gopro video and open it in elements and render it with no issues. when trying to render with the avi setting I get the error code that everyone quotes on here, but it starts at 0:000 and it doesn't matter if you delete that clip or any other you'll get the same error code until I change the setting in the sequence settings (video preview) I have included a screen shot of the sequence settings, is there something I'm not seeing or setting correctly.  also everytime I start a new project it is set for microsoft avi