How to see available space when burning a disk?

Please can someone tell me how I can see how much space is left on a blank disk when I am adding files to burn? In Windows there is a clear indication at the bottom of the screen showing how much space is left on the disk, so you can calculate which files/folders will fit into the space left. On my Mac there seems to be nothing - or at least nothing I can see in the Finder window - so how am I supposed to know when the disk is full or not? I usually end up putting too much on there & then it tells me once the burn process has started that there isn't enough space. This isn't very helpful or practical. Any advice appreciated....

Thanks BDAqua for reminding me to redownload Burn so I can use it on my new iMac. Glad that it still works in ML.

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