It says my superdrive isnt supported so i cant burn a dvd????!!

Both me and my sister have Macbooks with the latest verison of iLife
i recently made a movie on imovie for school.
My teacher just told me that i had to burn the movie to a dvd.
Right when i opened IDVD (for the first time) a message came up saying that my superdrive was not supported and so i could edit videos on iDVD but i couldnt burn anything
i tried this on my sisters computer and teh same thing happened
has this happened to anyone else?
and how can i fix this!
my sister has a brand new computer and i just updated all the software on both macs but it didnt work.
help anyone?
thanks

If you do indeed have a combo drive then here are 2 options:
Buy a Lacie Ext. FW Burner
or Build your own like i did here (4 easy steps).
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5826631&#5826631
I prefer building my own within an ext. FW enclosure (requires no additional drivers whereas Lacie and others might) Pioneer S-Drives (both internal and ext. FW) model types include and are not limited to DVR-103, 104, 107, 110, 111, 112, etc. Highly recommend using a DL Burners btw or at least having this capacity available to you.

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