How is Kodi interface supposed to work?

I’m using the 1.4.8.0 Alpha 22 build. I recently upgraded and had to do an entire reload re-scrape of all my media because something in the old version of Ember didn’t work correctly with the new version.

Anyway with that all taken care of, I’ve cleaned up some of the information more and changed some images and editing lots of information on the movies including fixing all the genres.

I do not understand what gets synced and how. After making changed in Ember I’ve tried doing a Ctrl-A on all the movies and then Right Click -> Kodi Interface -> Sync and the changes I made do not seem to appear in Kodi. If I do a manual refresh in Kodi then the changes appear.

I want to push all the current information from Ember into Kodi, and have all the information for the movies and TV shows updated according to what is in Ember. What configuration and procedure should I go through in order to achieve this?

Thanks!