Time and range sliders are twins. Both of them are used for animations in Maya. By default Maya opens time and range slider at the same time but user can hide one or both of them according the needs of job. Time slider is actually a time line, right beneath the workspace of Maya.
However the workspace of Maya is actually persp view or perspective camera. Time slider can be scrubbed with left mouse button as well as it can be played with playback controls. Playback controls are on the right side of the time slider and are very simple like media player controls. Range slider specifies the range of the time slider or time line. The values of both of them can be set from animation preference window. Video tutorial on animation preference can be watched from the same page, from where you got this video tutorial.
The value of time slider can be typed in small text boxes of range slider. Range slider has one bar and 4 small text boxes. On the left most corner of the range slider, you will find tow small text boxes for entering the start frames for time slider or range and on the right most side of the range slider bar you may find two text boxes for entering the end frame values of time slider and range. Time slider and range slider are easy to use and easy to understand; even a very new user can make an animation easily by using the time and range slider of Maya .
