# Ship > Get the owner's approval of the draft, render the final with bin/vawe ship, and wait for the verdict. Canonical: https://vawe.dev/docs/ship At the end of this page you have `out/.mp4`, the final, and a verdict from a fresh judge. This is stage 10 of the loop. You need a page that passed the critique on drafts. `ship` refuses without two things: a fresh review of the current page, and the owner’s approval of the full draft. ## Steps ### Get a fresh review ```bash bin/vawe judge films/hello/page.html --fresh ``` This starts its own session. If the `claude` CLI is missing, it exits 2. Then run `bin/vawe critique` from a separate terminal (see [Critique and fix](https://vawe.dev/docs/critique)). Either one must run on the page as it is now. An edit after the review makes the review stale. ### Show the draft to the owner ```bash bin/vawe sheet out/hello-draft.mp4 ``` Show the full draft, then stop. The owner approves the draft with `bin/vawe approve films/hello/page.html`. An agent never runs it. The approval holds only for the page as it was when the owner approved it. If you change the page, ask again. ### Start the final ```bash bin/vawe ship films/hello/page.html ``` The final is 60 fps, with motion blur and the audio mixed. The job runs in the background. Before it starts, the verb prints a warning if the brief is not done (see below). ### Wait for the job ```bash bin/vawe wait films/hello/page.html ``` One call waits up to about 3.5 minutes and prints a progress line each minute. If it says `STILL RUNNING`, call it again. Run it alone. For a final, `bin/vawe ship --status films/hello/page.html --wait` does the same. While you wait, fill any empty Board or Motion pass rows, or prepare the critique notes. ### Read the verdict The result includes a final check and the judge. Fix the worst finding first. Iterate on drafts with `bin/vawe dev` until the verdict is `PASS`, then ship once more.
## Other forms | Flag | What it does | | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `--aspect all` | one file for each aspect; or give a W:H ratio such as `9:16` | | `--out ` | the output file (not with `--aspect all`); the default is `out/.mp4` | | `--param key=value` | a page option, repeatable; the page reads it with `new URLSearchParams(location.search)`; the default output name gets it (`-look-riso`) | | `--wait` | wait until the render ends, instead of a background job | | `--status` | print the progress or the result of a background render; with `--wait`, wait up to 3.5 minutes | | `--profile` | print a cost table: frames, subframes, screenshots, capture and encode seconds, the 5 costliest seconds | ## What you see Before the render, `ship` prints a warning when the brief is not done: * the “Board” is not filled; * the “Motion pass” is not filled; * the beats of the Board differ from the worlds of the page; * “Taken from” names a move that no Board move cell contains. The warning is advice. The render goes on. The judge reads the same brief, so a plan that you keep on purpose needs a reason written in the brief. If a gate refuses, the message says which one and ends with the command to run, for example `no approval for hello` or `no fresh review of the current page`. ## What good looks like * The brief is done before the final. The Board and the Motion pass have rows. * The final follows a review and an approval of the same page. A PASS is never self-recorded. * A film that recreates a reference has passed `bin/vawe critique --ref ... --final` first. `ship` refuses until that loop passes. Read [Match a reference film](https://vawe.dev/docs/match-a-reference). ## Common mistakes | What you see | Why | What to do | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `no fresh review of the current page` | No `judge --fresh` or separate-session critique ran on this page | Run one of the two commands in the message | | The critique “ran in the session that rendered the draft” | A `VAWE_AGENT` label does not make a new session | Run it in a separate terminal or agent | | `no approval for ` or `the page changed after the approval` | The owner has not approved this version | Show the draft and stop; the owner runs `bin/vawe approve` | | `wait` says `STILL RUNNING` | The render takes longer than one call | Call it again | | The verdict names a second | The judge found a defect | Fix it with `bin/vawe dev --from s --to s`, then critique again | ## What to read next Recreate a reference, then ship. When a render fails. {/* sources (vawe d8481cc61): ship refusal, flags, background job, --status --wait 3.5 min: bin/vawe ship --help wait: bin/vawe wait --help; AGENTS.md "Shell" approve (owner only), refusal messages: bin/vawe approve --help; harness/lib/approval.mjs (shipProblem, SHOW_OWNER) fresh review, exit 2, same-session message: harness/lib/critique-gate.mjs ship warnings: harness/live/ship-warn.mjs, harness/lib/board.mjs (shipWarnings) show the draft with sheet: harness/lib/approval.mjs (SHOW_OWNER); AGENTS.md "Hard rules" iterate on drafts until PASS: skills/vawe-page/SKILL.md "Commands" ship refuses for a recreation: harness/media/render-page.mjs assertFinalReady (unverified-final); bin/vawe critique --help (--final) */}