Disk Utility to Create a DVD from an image

I get stymied when I try to us a diskimage as a source to make a DVD. I have a new DVD-R and it always wants to erase the disk, I cant get past that screen after I choose the drive as the destination. It wants to erase the disk but says it cannot erase this disk. There is noting in the help file to shed light on what to do. How do I make a DVD from a disk image ceated with iDVD?

I'm not sure how you are doing it but it should be done as follows. open Disk Utility and drag the disk image to the left pane in DU just below the volume list. then select the disk image in DU and press the "burn" button in disk utility toolbar.

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