I recently did a few animation tests and the default settings worked quite well to be honest. Except changing progressive to bucket. (Moving camera + moving objects + static lights (lots) + 1 moving light source)
To get rid of the flickering I bumped up the LC from 1000 to 2000 I think, after that everything was smooth. Test Bot Animation (pw: test) You can see some light flickering on the wall in the background but the background was rendered with the default settings and the character with the updated LC.
*edit* I might have also bumped the retrace threshold to 4 or 5, but I am not quite sure right now.