How to burn project directly to finalized DVD

Hi All -
Sorry for what may be a dumb question, but i'm new at DVDSP and i'm having a problem burning my project. I have it finalized and ready to burn, but when I click on build/format, it only allows me to burn to my hard drive, and doesn't give me the option of burning to a disc. Can anyone please help a newbie out

this is where i get stuck. my pull-down tab only has hard drive as an option. My dvd drive is not listed. I know I can burn DVDs because I've built and created projects in iDVD on the same computer.

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