open your track motion - pan crop does the same thing - at the bottom slide your key frame to the end of your event (the clip you want to spin) - decide how many times you want it to spin and multiply that number by 360, enter that number in the rotation angle and you are done. Just be sure to notice where your keyframe is. You can also key frame to spin one way and then another if you really want to get crazy. just like the old Batman show . . .same bat time same bat channel. . .

Yes, that works for spinning but then i end up seeing the black on the outside unless I realllllly crop it which makes it impossible to see most of what is going on. Is there any way to fix this?

Not really. It's just the physics of the thing. Turn a rectangle at an angle and it's going to overlap it's former shape and include some of the background. Cropping in is the only solution that avoids this, but as you pointed out, you may not want to crop in that far.

Another thing you can do is pick a complimentary solid color or still image or video clip to put on a lower track behind it, and that will fill in the black areas around the edges.

I was thinking the same thing. If you have a white background around your picture, make the background of an above track white, or whatever color the picture background around it's edges are.

Yea but a white backround might look a little cheap.

So use something other than white.